NHS Cheshire & Merseyside - Sefton Place - Medical Cover for IC Beds

NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU is supporting NHS Cheshire &Merseyside Integrated Care Board who is looking for a provider of Medical Cover for Intermediate Care Beds for Sefton place (Southport & Formby only). This service is to provide primary care support to medically optimised patients as part of the intermediate care multidisciplinary team. This includes patients who have been stepped down from the acute hospital trust and patients who have been stepped up via the two-hour urgent care response service. This cover will be provided five days per week from 8am to 6.30pm. Delivery will include ward round reviews, plus on-call arrangements for the management of those patients who have deteriorated and are at risk of hospital admission. This will be for a total of forty-six beds over two to three locations. The service will engage with multidisciplinary process and interface with secondary care, community geriatrician, pharmacy, and community services to ensure patient safety and manage patient flow. Thirty five of the forty-six are currently subject to a procurement exercise and the appointed provider of the medical cover will be notified of the provider of these thirty-five beds once the procurement exercise has been completed. The contract is to be awarded for a start date of 1st April 2024 for an initial period of 3 years with the option to extend for a further 2-year period. The value of the contract is £300,000 per annum with a total of £1,500,00 over the total 5-year period. The Authority has set an affordability threshold for the Procurement and reserves the right not to consider Bids that are unaffordable and above the affordability envelope of the project, or in in absence of an affordability envelope, this notice value. The Authority may seek clarification on bids that are unusually low or above the affordability threshold. Following clarification, it will reserve the right not to consider Bids that are either above the affordability threshold or unusually low. Further information is available fromhttps://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome