# Community Dysphasia & Communication Support Group

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [South Gloucestershire Council](/buyers/south-gloucestershire-council/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: North Bristol NHS Trust \(NBT\)
- Award value: £17,926
- Tender value: £17,926
- Award date: 18 March 2019
- Published: 18 September 2019
- Contract start: 1 April 2019
- Contract end: 31 March 2020
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 36f0d9b2-2f57-4990-8241-b9400a09dbf5-314627
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-53467ff3-3234-4c97-afd5-172637cad18d

## Description

This Scheme is designed to facilitate the provision, by the Trust of facilitated social opportunities for people with all levels of communication impairment following stroke or as a result of fronto-temporal dementia Primary Progressive Aphasia \(PPA\)/Semantic Dementia\. Concurrently to facilitate opportunities for carers of people with communication impairment following stroke to meet together and develop self-help groups\. This scheme will: • Organise and facilitate established Communication Groups with a registered Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist and expert patient in three locations in South Gloucestershire for stroke survivors, people with fronto-temporal dementia Primary Progressive Aphasia \(PPA\)/Semantic Dementia and their carers\. • Yate - Ridgewood Community Centre - 18 sessions per group over 12 months\. • Thornbury - The Chantry, Castle Street - 18 sessions per group over 12 months\. • Longwell Green Community Centre - 18 sessions per group over 12 months\. • Group for people with early stage fronto-temporal dementia PPA/Semantic dementia variant - 18 sessions per group over 12 months, Longwell Green Community Centre • In addition the scheme will: o Facilitate social participation o Help build confidence o Promote social inclusion and prevent social isolation o Promote wellbeing of people with communication impairment following stroke or onset of fronto-temporal dementia PPA/semantic dementia variant and their carers o Enable opportunities to support the maintenance of skills and levels of communication o Provide information and support regarding stroke or fronto-temporal dementia PPA/semantic dementia variant for people with communication impairment following these diagnosis and their carers\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/36f0d9b2-2f57-4990-8241-b9400a09dbf5-314627)