Provision of an Inpatient and Outpatient Mental Health Service

This contract will form part of the Defence occupational mental healthcare pathway, supporting Defence Community Mental Health (DCMH) in providing psychotherapy, and in providing appropriate inpatient provision, when required. It will reflect the different thresholds and tolerances for treatment used within Defence which will reflect the different risks to the NHS. The overarching requirement is for the Contractor to provide supplementary access to mental healthcare for: An inpatient setting for entitled personnel that is safe, locally based, inpatient services with the ability to provide urgent expert assessment, treatment, stabilisation and return to service or transition to civilian facilities or civilian life. To provide surge provision of a rolling 116 (annual total of no more than 416) new referrals for National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) approved psychotherapy for all DCMHs and Defence mental health staff and other identified personnel – referred to as the Outpatient Psychotherapy Service (OPS). The range of psychological provision required, to be delivered: (1) Delivery of evidence based psychologically informed interventions for a range of presentations, which will be up to and including stepped care levels 3/4a in complexity. (2) Delivering accredited specialist psychological interventions, that may draw on more than one psychological model, underpinned by theory and evidence based. (3) In some more complex cases, following MDT/therapist discussions, to deliver highly specialist or complex psychological interventions requiring especially high levels of skill, knowledge and experience. Provision of clinical supervision, as required and requested, to MOD clinicians (including approach specific specialist accredited supervision).