NHS Hastings and Rother CCG Integrated Community MSK Procurement

The objective of the procurement is to appoint a single entity ( Prime Contractor) to deliver integrated MSK care in the region covered by the Commissioner. The Prime Contractor is expected to demonstrate a credible approach to engaging patients and representative groups in design and delivery of services. The service will be provided within a ‘hub and spoke' framework. In the evaluation, the Commissioner expects to secure the best possible integration of health care expertise and access to services, but also have informed choice in their patient journeys. The approach will ensure the financial sustainability of the Prime Contractor to undertake the full range of MSK activity either directly providing or through subcontracting arrangements.

The Integrated MSK Service will deliver (see specification for full details): • Co-ordinated and integrated care across the MSK pathway as a whole • Improved MSK health for a defined population • Reduction in waiting times • Strategies and processes to reduce incidence of non-attendance; • Equity of access to consistent levels of care • Improved knowledge and skills in primary care through training and education • Promotion of self-care • Implementation of agreed shared care plans for medication • A protocol based approach to ensure that patients see the right person in the right place first time • Identification of and reduction in unwarranted variation across the MSK pathway • Pathway efficiencies and the elimination of waste across the entire pathway • Shared Decision Making, involving and informing patients and their carers about the options available to them • Choice at the point of onward referral to secondary care or more specialist services • For patients on a surgical or invasive procedure pathway, fitness for procedures assessment, preliminary consenting, direct listing (if clinically appropriate) and early supported discharge planning • A single point of access through which the patient’s discharge and rehabilitation is coordinated; • Treatment and post-operative rehabilitation, education and advice • For the more complex patients shared care arrangements between the patient, their GP and support of specialist teams • Access to and delivery of diagnostics, to include Primary Care access to Diagnostics (MRI, pathology, X-ray, etc) to meet the requirements of One-stop Clinics as appropriate • Participation in, and support of, educational and training of medical students, junior doctors, nurses and other ancillary medical personnel • Provision of comprehensive and accurate activity data that will enable effective tracking of patients through the care pathways The tender will be conducted via the NHS Commercial Solutions Bravo e tendering system. Bidders wishing to Express an Interest in participating will be required to register on the Bravo system to access documents.

See Attachments Section 5 for full details on how to register and participate.

Additional information: The attachments to this Notice will give potential bidders sufficient information to decide whether they wish to access the full tender documentation.

The tender will be conducted via the NHS Commercial Solutions Bravo e tendering system. Bidders wishing to Express an Interest (EOI) in participating will be required to register on the Bravo system if they have not previously done so. This can be done at any time via this web link:

https://commercialsolutions.bravosolution.co.uk

The Bravo Project number for this tender is Project 1932 The Invitation to Tender number is itt_2176

An organisation will be assumed to have expressed interest by registering on the Invitation to Tender on the portal.

NHS Commercial Solutions is utilising the Bravo system to manage this Procurement and to communicate with Bidders. Accordingly, there will be no hard copy documents issued to Bidders. All communications with the Commissioner and NHS Commercial Solutions will be conducted via the Bravo secure messaging service within the portal hosted by BravoSolution, the managed service provider for the NHS Commercial Solutions eTendering system.

It is free to register on the portal, and it can be accessed at any time of day. Should Bidders have any queries, or if Bidders are having problems registering on the portal, they should contact the BravoSolution dedicated Supplier Support, available from the Bravo Help desk: Phone: 0800 368 4850 ( Monday to Friday 9am to 6pm ) E-mail: help@bravosolution.co.uk