# Community Palliative Care Rapid Response Service

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: NHS DARLINGTON, NORTH DURHAM & DURHAM DALES EASINGTON & SEDGEFIELD CCG's
- Contract winner: Marie Curie Hospice
- Award value: £3,685,986
- Tender value: £4,995,690
- Award date: 30 December 2015
- Published: 18 November 2016
- Contract start: 1 April 2016
- Contract end: 31 March 2019
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 36eeedd4-9f5e-4273-a150-3f2d55698768-84837
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-33e3af57-adc9-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b

## Description

The aim of the service is to provide high quality, co-ordinated, flexible and responsive palliative nursing care in the community at short notice\. The service also aims to enable patients to attain their preferred place of care and reduce inappropriate emergency admissions for those patients whose needs can be met by rapid, short term intervention in the end-of-life stage of their illness\. An innovative funding approach has been adopted for this service where the respective CCGs will jointly fund the service with a partner organisation at a ratio of 50% each, i\.e\. the successful provider will contribute 50% of the service budget, and the CCGs will match this funding via an identical contribution\. The Contracting Authorities have commissioned the service under separate lots: Community Palliative Care Rapid Response Service for County Durham \(Lot 1\) Community Palliative Care Rapid Response Service for Darlington\(Lot 2\) The service is to commence on 1\.4\.2016 for a period of 3 years with the option to extend the contract for a further 1 x 2 years period at the discretion of the Contracting Authority and subject to satisfactory contractual and financial performance\.

## Related contract awards

- [Marie Curie Hospice](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-4742e34e-8ba9-4542-a5ce-021feff4d7c3): Health Education England
- [End of Life Services in Brent 2](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-832a32a7-b36d-44f1-a1fd-83a73d77fe5c): NHS Shared Business Services

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/36eeedd4-9f5e-4273-a150-3f2d55698768-84837)