Expressions of Interest and Market Engagement for the Delivery of End to End and Lifelong Personalised Commissioning Service

NHS Arden & Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (NHS Arden & GEM CSU) on behalf of East Leicestershire and Rutland Clinical Commissioning Group (ELRCCG) acting as Coordinating Commissioner on behalf of the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) CCGs (including ELR, Leicester City [LC] and West Leicestershire [WL] CCGs) are inviting expressions of interest from suitably qualified providers to deliver a Personalised Commissioning Service.

LLR CCGs are looking to procure a combined end to end and lifelong Personalised Commissioning Service that determines eligibility for newly referred individuals or review of eligibility for CHC or continuing care; brokerage packages of care and assessment of the suitability of PoC for eligible individuals where this is not undertaken by the local authority and, where necessary, identifying and brokering care for those individuals who are nor CHC or CC eligible but whose needs are of a complex nature as to warrant a contribution from the NHS towards their care

1. NHS Continuing Health Care (CHC) and NHS Funded Nursing Care (FNC) for Adults including Personal Health Budgets (PHB)
2. Continuing Care for Children and Young People including PHBs
3. Health Case Management for Pathway 2; HART and Nursing Home community reablement

The key aims and objectives include meeting the requirements of the following;

• the National Framework for NHS CHC and NHS FNC (revised 2012)
• the National Framework for Children and Young People’s Continuing Care (revised 2016) • National Guidance and regulations regarding the implementation of PHBs including the NHS Direct Payments Regulations (Amended 2013) • Children and Families Act 2014 • The SEND Code of Practice January 2015 • Act as the health case manager for the reablement service for those individuals • Assessing patients who have been identified as likely to be eligible for CHC, or who are placed in a nursing home and are eligible for receipt of FNC • Reviewing those patients in receipt of fully funded CHC, including fast track funding, joint funded care packages, or FNC • Assessing children and young people who have been identified as likely to be eligible for continuing care including those in transition • Increase the number of individuals who are able to have a PHB • Case managing patients whilst on the HART or Pathway 3 Nursing Home reablement pathway

The Commissioners will be holding a bidder information event on the afternoon of Wednesday 31st August 2016 in Leicestershire (venue to be confirmed).

Please register your attendance by no later than 12pm (noon) on Tuesday 30th August 2016. Places are strictly limited therefore reservations are limited to no more than 2 persons per organisation.

Additional information: This does not commit the CCGs to carry out a procurement process. Current services will remain in place during this period in line with existing contracts and Service Level Agreements. Bidders who have expressed an interest in this market testing exercise will have the opportunity to submit a separate response to the Contract Notice.

You can express an interest in this market testing exercise and bidder information event by registering your organisation on the Bravo website: https://ardengemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk. The PQQ reference is PQQ_287. Once registered, please complete the questions in the qualification envelope which asks providers to give details about your organisation’s name and postal address, email address, contact name and number. Your response should also include capability and previous experience of delivering this or a similar level of service. The deadline for submitting a response for this market testing exercise is 12pm (noon) on Tuesday 30th August 2016.