Termination of Pregnancy Services (ToPS), Northamptonshire

NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is procuring a provider for the Termination of Pregnancy Services (TOPs) contract.

The Commissioner is seeking provision of TOP services to meet the following objectives;

• To offer high quality, impartial support and advice to all service users who request an abortion, regardless of age, ethnicity, language, disability, religious or personal circumstances.
• To provide service users with access to an abortion as early as possible.
• To provide abortion methods clinically appropriate for a service user's gestation and clinical circumstances.
• To improve the sexual health of all service users through providing sexual health screening for Chlamydia and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) for all age groups for patients from Northamptonshire.
• To provide information and advice on all methods of contraception and the supply of the full range of long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods.
• To work with local sexual health service provider/s to facilitate ongoing continuation of long-term contraception Northamptonshire residents. This may involve requests to patients to share patient contact details with sexual health service for follow up.
• To provide service users with appropriate information on post-abortion counselling services both prior to and after having a termination.
• To provide information and advice on all methods of contraception, and the supply of the full range of reversible contraceptive methods.

The service will provide the following for the population of Northamptonshire:

• Offer face to face appointments for all young people aged 18 and under.
• Offer telemedicine and face to face appointments for Service Users as clinically appropriate.
• Advice for unwanted pregnancy and referral for termination of pregnancy.
• Pre-and post-termination support and advice and contraception planning and implementation post-termination.
• Active Health promotion/prevention campaigns on Sexual Reproductive Health and HIV.
• Ensuring that contraception and sexual health advice, support and provision is available as part of all termination of pregnancy service care pathways.
• Reducing unintended and unwanted conceptions and repeat terminations of pregnancy in all ages by improving access to long-acting reversible contraception
• To improve the sexual health of service users through proactively signposting to local sexual health services for screening and treatment as appropriate for Chlamydia, other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV. and signposting to GPs for cervical screening as appropriate
• To improve the sexual health of service users through proactively offering sexual health screening and treatment as appropriate for Chlamydia and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
• To provide information and advice on all methods of contraception, (with particular emphasis on the promotion of LARC) and the offer of the full range of reversible contraceptive methods. Where The supply of contraception is not appropriate, the service user should be signposted to local contraceptive and sexual health services.

The procurement is being run via the Atamis e-system where all procurement documents are available for download. Providers who do not have an account can register at the link here, health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗

The deadline to receive bids is 12 noon on 09th January 2023. Please note that this notice replace a Find-a-Tender Service advert previously published on 18th November 2022 at 5:05pm, see link below:

www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/032868-2022 ↗