Market testing statement – Prime Provider for services to people with a learning disability

Northamptonshire is embarking on an exciting and innovative transformation journey to secure sustainable improvements to the personal outcomes and life experiences of local people with a learning disability. Northamptonshire has a known population of 3,300 people with a learning disability, who have a range of abilities as well as support needs that include:

Northamptonshire County Council, NHS Nene Clinical Commissioning Group and NHS Corby Clinical Commissioning Group, alongside of NHS England Specialised Commissioning, form the Northamptonshire Transforming Care Partnership. This Partnership is charged with delivering the requirements of the national agenda of Transforming Care, as well as the local commitment to a wider learning disability service transformation, much of which is outlined in our local Transforming Care Plan. This plan describes our intention to provide a range of enabling and early intervention services, to move away from the use of institutional settings, to drive a further uptake of personal budgets across health and social care, and to support individuals to live ordinary, and sometimes extraordinary, lives.

Please see the attached document for full details.

As part of our learning disability transformation engagement plan we have scheduled two market events aimed at the learning disability provider market. At these events we will update the market on our commitment to ‘Transforming Care’, as well as outline our commissioning intentions over the coming months. These events are as follows:

To book a place at one of these events please contact Debbie Smith on 01604 651652 or debbie.smith@neneccg.nhs.uk.

We hope you will join us as a current or potential future provider and contribute to how our objectives might be achieved.