Wheelchair and Postural Services - North Yorkshire and York

NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board {ICB), hereafter the Relevant Authority, is seeking to commission Wheelchair and Postural Services for North Yorkshire and York through a Competitive Process under The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. The preferred Provider will be required to demonstrate how they will deliver a clinically safe, high quality, dignified, cost effective service that puts the individual at the centre of their own care which supports and maintains their on-going health and wellbeing needs. The service will be required to: • Provide a timely, comprehensive holistic assessment of an individual's posture and mobility needs, taking into account medical condition, functional ability, social situation and environment; • Provide posture, pressure relief and where appropriate, predictable changes in Wheelchair User needs; • Provide a service that meets the Wheelchair Users wider health and wellbeing needs; • Enhance and maintain the Wheelchairs Users quality of life; • Support personalisation, independence and offer a Personal Wheelchair Budget where eligible and appropriate; • Support an overall reduction in hospital admissions and/or length of stay; and • Demonstrate Wheelchair Users (and carers) are central to the decision making in their wheelchair assessment and provision - evidenced through patient centred outcome measures. NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB is intending to award a contract under the Competitive Process of The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. Approximate lifetime value of the contract is £14,347,572.40 - the value includes an optional extension of 24 months. Contract term - 1 December 2026 to 30 November 2029 (contract term may be extended by 24 months) Additional information: Award criteria - Price should be taken to mean Provider Selection Regime 'Key Criteria - Value'