Home Oxygen Service - Assessment and Review and Community Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service to NHS Somerset ICB

Somerset Integrated Care Board is seeking to commission their Home Oxygen - Assessment and Review Service.

The aim of the service is to deliver a high quality, safe and effective community service that ensures home oxygen therapy is appropriately prescribed to patients with clinical need whilst ensuring service prescribers, users and their carers are well informed about the nature, scope and capability of the service and that provision is evidence based, clinical led and continually strives to improve outcomes.

The high-level objectives of the service are:

• to provide a systematic and integrated service, working collaboratively with primary, community, secondary and social care services.
• to provide responsive access to assessment and follow up procedures.
• for the service to be carried out by appropriately qualified and trained healthcare professionals using appropriate diagnostic equipment.
• to ensure high quality, clinically appropriate care and strengthen affordability and value, through targeting the service on those who will benefit from home oxygen.
• to ensure a higher standard of clinical treatment and improved outcomes, through more effective and speedier diagnosis to ensure that users of the service have a positive experience of care.
• to reduce risk of harm through removal of oxygen supply where no longer required or appropriate.

The Contract will be for 2 years, with an option to extend for up to a further 2 years, with a maximum budget of £229,000 per annum and a total contrate value of £458,000.

The service will commence on the 1st October 2023.

This procurement is being carried out by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioners. Additional information: The services are healthcare services falling within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations") which are not subject to the full regime of the Regulations, but are instead governed by the "Light Touch Regime" contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77).

Somerset Integrated Care Board is seeking to commission their Community Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service.

The aim of the service is to promote and embed pulmonary rehabilitation as an essential component in the management of patients with COPD and other chronic respiratory conditions within a high quality, safe and effective environment.

The high-level objectives of the service are:

• to promote and embed pulmonary rehabilitation as an essential component in the management of patients with COPD and other chronic respiratory conditions.
• to improve understanding amongst health professionals of which patients will benefit and should be referred for pulmonary rehabilitation.
• to improve access to pulmonary rehabilitation for eligible patients.
• to improve participation and completion rates from pulmonary rehabilitation for eligible patients.
• to provide an individually tailored, multi-disciplinary intervention for symptomatic patients that is integrated into their overall care.
• to address the social and psychological impacts of the disease on the patients and those close to them.
• monitor progress with appropriate individual outcome measures and programme quality control.
• to improve symptoms and functional performance4.
• to provide a cost-effective, quality assured pulmonary rehabilitation programme that meets the patient's personal needs.
• to improve the patient's knowledge, understanding and, in turn, confidence in the self-management of their conditions, resulting in appropriate use of other healthcare resources.
• to improve patients' health-related quality of life, breathlessness management, functional and maximum exercise capacity and thus reduce disability and handicap associated with chronic respiratory disease.
• to ensure users of the service have a positive experience.

The Contract will be for 2 years, with an option to extend for up to a further 2 years, with a maximum budget of £254,000 per annum and a total contrate value of £508,000.

The service will commence on the 1st October 2023.

This procurement is being carried out by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioners. Additional information: The services are healthcare services falling within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations") which are not subject to the full regime of the Regulations, but are instead governed by the "Light Touch Regime" contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77).