Provision of Integrated Children’s Community Health Services for Medway
Main contract details
This procurement is an innovative and progressive integration of a host of child health services across Medway jointly commissioned by Medway Council and NHS Medway CCG.
In Medway, we believe that community children’s health services should focus on supporting children and families to achieve the outcomes that are most important to them.
We are aiming to build a modern and responsive system of children’s community health services that retains families at the centre of interventions, that links well across health and social care disciplines as well as the wider children’s workforce, and a service where practitioners are enabled and empowered to respond to individual needs.
The commissioning work covers a wide range of existing services as well some areas of new development where we know there are gaps in service. We are looking forward to working with providers to see how some of our main universal and more specialist children’s health services can be better integrated, ensuring that future services are more able to meet the needs of children and families in Medway.
The current children’s community health services that are included in this commissioning process are:
• Children’s Community Nursing Service
• Community Nursing Team for Children and Young People with Learning Disabilities
• Special School Nursing Service
• Continence Services
• Looked After Children’s Health Services
• Children’s Nutrition and Dietetics
• Children’s Occupational Therapy
• Children’s Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy
• Children’s Neurological Physiotherapy
• Speech and Language Therapy for pre school children
• Speech and Language for school age children
• Paediatric Outpatient Services
• Special Needs Nursery Service
• Health Visiting
• School Nursing
• National Child Measurement Programme
• Oral Health Promotion
• Infant Feeding Network and co-ordination
• Specialist Audiological Assessment and Management
• Complex Children’s Podiatry
• Children’s Orthotics
• Tongue Tie Removal Service
Commissioners have now consulted with the public and stakeholders in relation to their experience, needs and future service priorities and these have been built into our draft specification and outcomes for the future.
NHS Medway CCG and Medway Council are undertaking a single commissioning process and procurement exercise, offering two distinct lots of services but underpinned by joint outcomes, values and pathways:
Lot 1: Healthy Child Programme – this will be for universal public health services and funded primarily by Medway Council and the Public Health Grant
Lot 2: Specialist Community Health Services – this consists of more specialist community children’s health services including children’s therapies and children’s community nursing, and is funded by NHS Medway CCG
In addition to these services, a requirement to become the lead tenant of the forthcoming Child Development Centre will be part of Lot 2. The new centre, which is currently being developed in Strood, will be a key enabler for future providers of children’s community health services in Medway. The successful provider will take over the running of the building to develop as a hub for good practice and innovation.
Medway Council and NHS Medway CCG are taking an outcomes based approach and have drafted a ‘Hard Outcomes Framework’. This will be central to the approach we are taking, and we will be requiring providers to move away from a more traditional activity based approach to and outcomes base where we can really demonstrate the difference services are making to the lives of children, young people and families.
The commissioners will shortlist a number of providers to participate in the competitive dialogue process through the use of a Selection Questionnaire which is available for potential providers to download and complete.
Key dates
Expression of interest window
From 30/05/2017 13:49 to 29/06/2017 12:00
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Contact details
Chatham
Kent
ME4 4TR
United Kingdom