# Severe Mental Illness \(SMI\) Outreach SDF Funding Plan in Northamptonshire

> A sourced UK public sector contract award published by St Andrew's Healthcare.

## Key facts

- Buyer: St Andrew's Healthcare
- Supplier: [St Andrew's Healthcare](/suppliers/st-andrew-s-healthcare/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £202,000
- Tender value: £202,000
- Award date: 19 February 2024
- Published: 4 April 2024
- Contract start: 1 January 2024
- Contract end: 31 December 2024
- Stage: awarded
- Notice ID: fba406a0-0eb6-4ef4-9c83-2bba66be7ca5-737873
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-c09b845b-4af5-4cc9-829e-4e365779d32d

## Description

NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board \(ICB\) have awarded services under a Pilot arrangement for a period of 12months as part of the Severe Mental Illness \(SMI\) Outreach model\. This contract is awarded as a grant agreement\. The SMI Outreach model includes the following: o A dedicated team, comprising physical health nurses, smoking cessation advisors and health & wellbeing coaches\. o Engaging with GP practices to identify the top 20% of non-responding SMI patients \(this equates to c\.960 SMI patients in Northamptonshire, per year\)\. o Mobile testing equipment to allow a comprehensive physical health check in any location across the system\. o Smoking cessation advice, where applicable, including awareness-raising around smoking risks for SMI patients and access to Nicotine Replacement Therapies or local authority smoking cessation services\. o Adapted de-briefing sessions to explain the result of the health check including lifestyle and behaviour recommendations\. o Up to 6-week health and wellbeing coaching delivered by Peer Support Worker - to include community navigation, resolve access barriers and support new habit formation\. The provider will support: o formation and mobilisation of a peripatetic team, including a clinical/ non-clinical skill mix that support the delivery of a comprehensive physical health check o support relationships with GP practices in Northamptonshire or the East Midlands region o work closely with Primary Care to ensure the Ardens SMI Health Check template is completed \(in full\) on both System 1 and EMIS clinical records, and in a way that ensure the health check is visibly completed on the Ardens Manager Platform o mobilise equipment and facilities to deliver all aspects of the health check across a range of community locations, including within the patient's home\. o enable access to dedicated awareness-raising, advice, guidance and support for smoking cessation\. o enable access to focused debriefing, in which patients who receive a health check can be given opportunities to discuss the outcomes, clarify their understanding, and fully comprehend the recommendations for follow-up intervention\. o enable access to person-centred, needs-led guided support and intervention to bring about lifestyle and behaviour change o work within the financial envelope of £202,000 per annum

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/fba406a0-0eb6-4ef4-9c83-2bba66be7ca5-737873)