South East Staffs & Seisdon Peninsula CCG - Wound Healing Service (adults)

South East Staffordshire and Seisdon Peninsula Clinical Commissioning Group wish to invite prospective providers to express their interest for the provision of a Wound Healing Service (Adults). The Service shall be offered to patients in a community setting, and where clinically appropriate visit patients in their homes, care homes (residential and nursing), prisons etc. The CCG area covers the population of Burntwood, Tamworth and Lichfield (162 000), and Seisdon Peninsula (52 000). The dedicated Wound Healing service will aim to assess, diagnose and treat patients with wounds, for the CCG population.

The objectives of the procurement are to:

• Provide good Service User experience/satisfaction;
• Provide timely access to the Service;
• Ensure relevant diagnostics are available and undertaken;
• Ensure Service Users receive evidence based treatment, delivered by people skilled in this area;
• Healing rates are defined and monitored;
• Support Service Users to self-care;
• Ensure comprehensive management plans are available for GP plus, where available;
• Reduce re-occurrence of wounds, including leg ulcers, DFU and pressure wounds;
• Ensure resources are used effectively and appropriately: dressing use, equipment use, including specialist beds and mattresses;
• Provide advice and support to care homes, nursing homes and clinicians within primary care with regards to wound prevention;
• Improve health related quality of life for patients with wounds.

The Service will contribute to:

• A reduction in the duration wounds take to heal and a subsequent time a patient is retained within the Service;
• Preventing the re-occurrence of wounds;
• A reduction in the number of inpatient admissions for wounds and wound related disorders (i.e. cellulitis);
• An increase in the management of wounds within a Primary Care/Community setting;
• A reduction in ALOS for patients with a complex/complicated surgical wound.

There is an existing service related to this tender across South east Staffordshire and Seisdon Peninsula and the new service will be tendered via an outcome focused specification.

All other relevant information including KPI's will be contained within the Service Specification which will be published with the Invitation to Tender documents.

The anticipated start date is 1.1.2016. The Provider will be notified by August 2015 to enable implementation. The procurement may have TUPE implications.

The successful provider will be required to sign the relevant national NHS Standard Contract for the Service, accepting all terms and conditions.

Bidders are invited to express an interest in providing this service by e-mail to Lisa Parker, no later than 17.4.2015.

The following information must be stated in the email: Organisation Name: Organisation Address, Telephone number, e-mail address, website address, Organisation type.

Additional information: If and when this requirement is offered to tender, this will be done via electronic means, NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU is conducting this procurement exercise as a central purchasing body for another NHS body with whom the successful bidder(s) will enter into contracts for the supply of the services. Any other public sector body wishing to access the contract may do so only with permission from the contracting NHS body. The contract conditions will be set out in the Invitation to Tender. Further details will be made available via documentation released during the course of the tender process.

Submission of expression of interest and procurement specific information This exercise will be conducted on the NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU portal at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk Candidates wishing to be considered must register their expression of interest as follows:

• i)Candidates should register on the portal at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk (registration and use of website is free). If your organisation has registered previously, you do not need to re-register. As this is an open procurement, you will be invited to participate if you have expressed an interest within the specified timeframe. Any such expressions of interest must be forwarded to Lisa Parker — lisa.parker@staffordshirecss.nhs.uk with the following information: organisation name and address; telephone number; email address; website address and organisation type. You must submit your expression of interest by the deadline stated (17.4.2015). For technical support in accessing the tender documentation once issued, contact the BravoSolution Help-desk on +44 8003684850 or help@bravosolution.co.uk Although this procurement is for Part B services (and therefore not subject to the full scope of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (the ‘Regulations’), the Contracting Authority will apply best procurement practice. Please note however, that the Contracting Authority does not intend to hold itself bound in any way in respect of those Regulations save those which apply to Part B services.