WA12112 - Healthcare Services to Vinney Green Secure Children's Home

NHS England) South West (the Commissioner) seeks a Provider with the capability and capacity to deliver Healthcare Services to Vinney Green Secure Children’s Home.<br/><br/>The aims and objectives of the service:<br/><br/>• The service is child focused and is based on tools, guidance and interventions that are designed for use with children and young people. <br/>• Children and young people are provided with a health screen on reception, using the validated Comprehensive Health Assessment Tool (CHAT). This takes the form of an initial screening followed by more in-depth assessment according to clinical need. <br/>• Safeguarding of the child is paramount and consideration is always paid to awareness and management of self-harm and suicide. <br/>• There is understanding among all staff of how and when to share information. <br/>• Children and young people understand how to access and consent to services, are involved in feedback on services, know how to comment on them and have choices about their treatment where appropriate. <br/>• Service referral pathways are documented and understood by all staff.<br/>• Healthcare services are not silo based but multidisciplinary, comprehensive and collaborative. There is a lead healthcare coordinator and a health plan for each child. Healthcare staff work together with staff across the secure setting e.g. care staff, education <br/>• The healthcare service demonstrates a commitment to a ‘whole setting’ approach to improving the health and wellbeing of children, young people and staff across the Secure Children’s Home.<br/>• The healthcare service is committed to the principles of the Framework for Integrated Care (SECURE STAIRS) and can evidence its ongoing delivery across the whole setting.<br/>• Access to healthcare services is timely, consistent and equivalent to that which children and young people would receive in the community. <br/>• Emergency service provision is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all year round. <br/>• Evidence based policies and strategies are in place, that describe why a service is provided in the way it is. <br/>• Continuity of care is maintained on transition to adult services, to another secure setting and to community services, through collaborative working across the setting. Transition planning includes all aspects of health service provision. <br/>• Discharge planning starts on reception into the secure setting. <br/>• Facilities for providing healthcare interventions are, within the confines of the structure of the building, equivalent to those that would be available in the community and are maintained in the same way and subject to the same guidance and legislation. Guidance should be individualised for each secure setting. <br/>• The service is staffed by people with the particular competencies needed to work with children and young people in secure settings. <br/>• Staff need to be aware of developing guidance and legislation relating to children and young people to ensure all staff, across the disciplines, act upon new guidance and legislation when published<br/><br/>The healthcare services provision will include:<br/>• General Medical Services<br/>• Mental Health Services<br/>• Primary Care Nursing<br/>• Public Health Programmes<br/>• Emotional Wellbeing services <br/>• Contraception and sexual health advice services<br/>• Substance misuse services – Psychosocial and pathways to clinical treatment.<br/>• Screening and immunisation<br/>• Diagnostic services<br/>• Smoking Cessation Services<br/>• Management of long-term conditions<br/>• Health promotion and prevention<br/><br/>The service will facilitate access to community based secondary care services, including dentistry and optometry.<br/><br/>The contract term will be for 7 years, with a maximum annual value of £725,000 and a total maximum contract value of £5,075,000.00. <br/><br/>The new contract is due to commence on 1st April 2023. <br/><br/>Bidders are directed to the specification(s) provided with this opportunity for full details of the programme’s objectives and requirements. 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).