NHS Barnsley CCG : Barnsley REspiratory Assessment and THErapy (BREATHE) in the Community Service

NHS Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group (BCCG) is committed to commissioning high quality, sustainable health care which puts the people of Barnsley first. Building on work that has already taken place to bring together multi-disciplinary community services with general practice into something called Neighbourhood Teams (NT) we now wish to align specialist community respiratory services to this model.

We are procuring a new approach to providing care for adults with respiratory conditions. The new service will be known as Barnsley REspiratory Assessment and THErapy (BREATHE) in the Community - The Integrated Specialist Respiratory Team within the Neighbourhood Team Model.

The service will be a community respiratory, out of hospital based service with a main principle of seeing and treating patients in the community, supporting them to stay well at home. The principle of self-care and health coaching should run throughout delivery.

The service will provide nursing and therapy support, specialist input to the Neighbourhood Team Model, advice and guidance, an Exacerbation Support Service (including early supported discharge), home oxygen provision and a Nebuliser Assessment Service (in patient's homes) for patients with:

Exclusions: Heart Failure; Acute Chest infections; and Pulmonary Rehabilitation which are commissioned independently.

The service will support admission avoidance and support people to stay well at home by implementing the following key principles:

Additional information:

The Contract will be for a term of three years with the opportunity to extend for a further two years subject to mutual agreement between the successful Bidder and the Authority. The maximum term of Contract is consequently five years. The stated contract value is for a five year contract duration.

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