Gloucestershire Joining Up Your Information

The Joining Up Your Information initiative is a partnership project involving a range of health and social care providers in Gloucestershire. The aim of the Joining Up Your Information project is to bring significant benefits to care recipients by making their information available digitally to health and social care professionals involved in their care. The project vision is described as follows:

‘To support the delivery of safe, effective and collaborative care, centred around the service user, by ensuring that any professionals and the service user have access, and can contribute to, all relevant and up-to-date clinical and administrative information which relates to their care, from all sources whichever organisation they are working for and whenever and wherever they are working. This includes the service user, enabling them to collaborate in the planning and provision of their care.’

Key requirements for the solution are to:

Key principles of the solution are that it:

To acquire the required solution we intend to run a competitive procurement, via an appropriate public sector framework agreement, during August 2015.

Before we finalise our requirement, and come to market, we are inviting comments on;

For the avoidance of doubt we can only access framework agreements that are open to use by NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups.

Whilst we will be pleased to receive comments on these points, and will consider them in our deliberations we give no commitment that they will from part of our final decision.

Any written comments that you may wish to submit should be submitted through the In-Tend portal (https://in-tendhost.co.uk/swcsu/aspx/ProjectManage/54) to be received by 26th June 2015.

There shall also be a Market Engagement event held on the 25th of June 2015 in Gloucestershire. Registration and details can be obtained on the above link.