Specialist Healthcare Tasks

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  "date": "2025-09-26T15:39:57+01:00",
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    "id": "GB-FTS-152991",
    "name": "Essex County Council"
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    "title": "Specialist Healthcare Tasks",
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        "description": "This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) notice that this Most Suitable Provider process has been abandoned and a contract has not been awarded. This process has been abandoned under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply.",
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              "text": "The existing Specialist Healthcare Tasks Service was jointly commissioned in 2003 to ensure that children and young people with identified medical needs access the community and enjoy the same opportunities as their peers. It is expected that the service will be provided to a range of staff working with these young people, including Special Educational Needs School transport providers, identified Essex Social Care staff, short break Foster Carers, Education staff supporting children with medical needs in local schools and settings; and workers supporting young people who access Essex short breaks.\nThis is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) notice that this Most Suitable Provider process has been abandoned and a contract has not been awarded. This process has been abandoned under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply."
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              "text": "The existing Specialist Healthcare Tasks Service was jointly commissioned in 2003 to ensure that children and young people with identified medical needs access the community and enjoy the same opportunities as their peers. It is expected that the service will be provided to a range of staff working with these young people, including Special Educational Needs School transport providers, identified Essex Social Care staff, short break Foster Carers, Education staff supporting children with medical needs in local schools and settings; and workers supporting young people who access Essex short breaks."
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    "description": "The existing Specialist Healthcare Tasks Service was jointly commissioned in 2003 to ensure that children and young people with identified medical needs access the community and enjoy the same opportunities as their peers. It is expected that the service will be provided to a range of staff working with these young people, including Special Educational Needs School transport providers, identified Essex Social Care staff, short break Foster Carers, Education staff supporting children with medical needs in local schools and settings; and workers supporting young people who access Essex short breaks.",
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      "description": "Advisory services provided by nurses"
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      "name": "Essex County Council",
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      "address": {
        "region": "UKH36",
        "locality": "Chelmsford",
        "postalCode": "CM11QH",
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "streetAddress": "County Hall, Market Road"
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        "url": "https://www.essex.gov.uk/"
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      "contactPoint": {
        "name": "Jake Berridge",
        "email": "jake.berridge@essex.gov.uk"
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  "date": "2025-08-08T15:48:31+01:00",
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        "description": "The Specialist Healthcare Tasks Service should deliver good quality competency-based healthcare training, assessment and delegation to support workers in order to meet the bespoke care needs of children and young people that will enable them to access and attend a range of settings and make progress in education. \nStaff delivering the training must have the appropriate clinical competence to train, assess and delegate delivery of healthcare tasks to support workers. All training, assessment and delegation should be underpinned by an evidence-based methodology and process which complies with all relevant professional standards. The provider of the service will also ensure there is a robust governance framework in which to deliver all aspects of this service.\n(NB: this list is not exhaustive and will be reviewed regularly between provider and commissioners)\n•\tAdministering medicine in accordance with prescribed medicine, with pre-calculated dosage provided via naso-gastric tube, gastrostomy tube, orally or applied to skin, eyes and/or ears.\n•\tInjections (intramuscular or subcutaneous). These may be single dose or multiple dose devices which are pre-assembled with pre-determined amounts of medication to be administered as documented in the individual child's care plan (preloaded devices should be marked when to beadministered e.g. for diabetes where the dose might be different am or pm. In many circumstances there may be two different pens, one with short acting insulin and another for administration at night with long acting insulin).\n•\tInserting suppositories or pessaries with a pre-packaged dose of a pre-prescribed medicine.\n•\tRectal medication with a pre-packaged dose i.e. rectal diazepam.\n•\tRectal paraldehyde which is not pre-packaged and has to be prepared - permitted on a named child basis as agreed by the child's lead medical practitioner i.e. Pediatrician or GP.\n•\tAdministration of buccal or intra-nasal Midazolam and Hypo Stat or Gluco Gel.\n•\tAssistance with inhalers, cartridges and nebulisers.\n•\tEmergency treatments covered in basic first aid training including airway management.\n•\tTracheostomy care for a stable stoma including suction using a suction catheter.\n•\tEmergency change of a tracheostomy tube.\n•\tNasal or oral suctioning and nasal/oro pharangeal suction to a prescribed depth . This should be prescribed by a doctor, children's respiratory nurse specialist or a paediatric respiratory physiotherapist.\n•\tUse of cough assist devices when prescribed as part of a respiratory care plan.\n•\tAssistance with prescribed oxygen administration including oxygen saturation monitoring where required.\n•\tAdministration and care of liquid oxygen administration.\n•\tVentilation care for a child with a predictable medical condition and stable ventilation requirements (both invasive and non-invasive ventilation).\n•\tBlood glucose monitoring and carbohydrate counting as agreed by the child's lead nursing/medical practitioner. E.g. GP, Pediatrician, Children's Diabetes Nurse Specialist.\n•\tBolus or continuous feeds via naso-gastric tube or gastrostomy.\n•\tBolus or continuous feeds using a pump via gastrostomy or jejunostomy.\n•\tIntermittent catheterisation and catheter care.\n•\tSupporting a child/young person to access a mitrofanoff.\n•\tStoma care including the requirement to maintain patency of a stoma in an emergency situation prior to seeking advice from the registered nurse.*\nPlease note this list is not exhaustive and only includes some of the most common clinical tasks which require competency training"
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    "title": "Specialist Healthcare Tasks",
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    "description": "The existing Specialist Healthcare Tasks Service was jointly commissioned in 2003 to ensure that children and young people with identified medical needs access the community and enjoy the same opportunities as their peers. It is expected that the service will be provided to a range of staff working with these young people, including Special Educational Needs School transport providers, identified Essex Social Care staff, short break Foster Carers, Education staff supporting children with medical needs in local schools and settings; and workers supporting young people who access Essex short breaks.",
    "communication": {
      "futureNoticeDate": "2025-09-22T00:00:00+01:00"
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    "classification": {
      "id": "85141220",
      "scheme": "CPV",
      "description": "Advisory services provided by nurses"
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      "id": "GB-FTS-152991",
      "name": "Essex County Council",
      "roles": [
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      "address": {
        "region": "UKH36",
        "locality": "Chelmsford",
        "postalCode": "CM11QH",
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "streetAddress": "County Hall, Market Road"
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      "details": {
        "url": "https://www.essex.gov.uk/",
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      "contactPoint": {
        "name": "Jake Berridge",
        "email": "jake.berridge@essex.gov.uk"
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  "language": "en",
  "description": "This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intended approach notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award.\nThe Award decision-maker is: \nChristopher Martin - Director of Strategic Commissioning & Policy (Children & Families)\nThe intention is to award a contract using the most suitable provider process.",
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