# Primary Care Mental Health and Talking Therapy Service

> Tender notice from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit](/buyers/nhs-arden-and-greater-east-midlands-commissioning-support-unit/contract-awards)
- Published: 3 February 2019
- Planned start: 1 October 2019
- Planned end: 30 September 2022
- Stage: open_tender
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: bcb96e7b-e1b9-4f68-9838-5c0ff3a640fc-267482
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-2b1a2e6a-d128-4706-9864-b820b3dfc98e

## Description

NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG is undertaking a procurement for the provision of a Primary Mental Health & Talking Therapy Service \(incorporating Improving Access to Psychological Therapies\)\. The contract duration will be 2 years \(24 months\) with an option to extend for a further 1 years \(12 months\)\. The aims and objectives of the service are: • To provide a single gateway for all patients requiring treatment and tailored support for common mental health problems at a primary care level\. • To co-ordinate each person's journey to recovery through the service by utilising a case management approach\. • To support the implementation of NICE guidelines, using evidence based psychological interventions, in the treatment of anxiety and depression\. • To offer a range of wider non-IAPT based interventions ensuring that both adapts and reflects the needs of a diverse population and compliments the delivery of statutory obligations in the delivery of psychological therapies\. • To offer a diverse range of interventions to include remote, face-to-face, group and guided self-help to ensure greater access and patient choice\. • Elements of the service delivering to people with LTC and/or MUS will be integrated into existing medical pathways and services\. • Services will be co-located with primary care, contingent on local network development\. • Provide individualised support to individuals who may have difficulty accessing the therapeutic elements of the service due to difficulties as a result of wider personal, social or clinical factors, that impact on their potential recovery\. • Provide a tailored service for pre and post-natal women who do not meet the threshold for specialist perinatal mental health services, but may be at an increased risk due to common mental health problems\. • In accordance with the key themes from co-design events the service will: - provide direct access to a practitioner at the first point of contact\. - provide flexible access \(including times\) to services so not to exclude individuals in employment or with caring responsibilities\. - effectively assist people who feel they are in crisis and navigate any step up to more specialised services\. - acknowledge and support the role of carers and wider support networks - link to wider community-based resources - provide an early intervention to prevent the escalation of a problem\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/bcb96e7b-e1b9-4f68-9838-5c0ff3a640fc-267482)