Interface Community Geriatrician(s) Service

NHS West London Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is seeking quotations from providers who are interested in providing an Interface Community Geriatrician(s) service for patients of West London CCG area. The overall vision and ethos is to recruit a geriatrician to link primary, community and secondary care over the 7 day working week, 365 days of the year, operating as an integral part of Whole Systems Integrated Care, the Community Independence Service and within care homes team and playing a critical role in the delivery of key work-streams. The role will support West London CCG’s wider strategic drive to provide better and more co-ordinated care throughout the year, keep people out of hospital, provide more care closer to home in community settings and work with patients to understand their holistic health and social care needs in order to provide a person-centred approach to care. The service will support aims of the service are to improve the quality of care to older people in the community which will provide the following benefits:

• Improved 7 day liaison and support to GP’s • Reduce unplanned hospital admissions • Initiate earlier service intervention to support speedier discharge • Better co-ordinated community care, including care homes. • Decreased length of stay, improve bed utilisation. • Improved patient experience of care • Improved health-related quality of life of those with long-term conditions • Increased number of people dying in their usual place of residence • Reduced cost of inappropriate medication.

The objectives of the Service are: • Support skills transfer for geriatrician to other healthcare providers • Strengthen the clinical effectiveness of Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings • Improve the interface between primary and secondary care over 365 days of the year. • Promote continuity of care between primary and secondary care(minimising unnecessary transfers of care/handoffs). • Interface with secondary care frailty pathways

The contract will be for a two year period commencing from 3rd January 2017. The maximum value across the two year period is £480,000.00. West London CCG will provide administrative support for the roles. Bidders may wish to bid for either • 1 WTE Geriatrician support for the North of West London CCG area (lot 1) • 1 WTE Geriatrician support for the South of West London CCG area (lot 2) • 2 WTE All the CCG area (lot 3) Organisations interesting in bidding to provide this service will need to register on the EU Supply e-tendering portal https://nhssbs.eu-supply.com and search for tender ID 25845

Additional information: Organisations interesting in bidding to provide this service will need to register on the EU Supply e-tendering portal https://nhssbs.eu-supply.com and search for tender ID 25845