British Sign Language Interpreting Services and DeafBlind Communicator Guide Services

The Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group is inviting quotations from organisations that would like the opportunity to provide British Sign Language Interpreting services and Deafblind Communicator Guide services for deaf, hard of hearing and deafblind people in Leeds.

The service will be provided for people who require appointments within:

• The CCG commissioned services as listed in Annex 1 within the service specification

• All Leeds CCG GP Practices (as listed in Annex 2 within the service specification), on a flexible basis, based on service user need but within General Practice core hours (Monday - Friday 8am - 6:30pm) and extended access hours (evenings Monday - Friday 6:30pm - 8pm and weekends 9am - 1pm) to support patients to access pre-bookable and urgent on the day appointments).

This will provide an equitable service for all patients/service users who require additional support to attend face to face appointments.

The total annual budget for this service (as detailed in the service specification) is £60,000 with activity levels as detailed below:

Service Description Annual activity:

*1 unit= up to 2 hour appointment

The provider will be required to deliver British Sign Language Interpretation and Deaf/Blind Communicator Guide services as described in this specification in keeping with the above activity plan.

The provider will be required to provide additional information in support of any appointments which are 2 or more units so that the Commissioner can validate the activity.

Further details of the requirements can be found in the accompanying service specification.

Additional information:

RFQ documents can be downloaded by Registering an Interest in this opportunity on the NHS Sourcing Portal.