North Staffordshire Community Falls Coordinator Service

North Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent CCGs wish to commission a

community based falls coordinator service for the North Staffs and Stoke on Trent CCG population. The community based falls service will be expected to reduce individuals falls risks, improve patients' health outcomes and support people to live independently for longer. To minimize the harm due to falls and the number of associated hospital admissions there is a requirement to focus on prevention. An effective community falls service will work with a range of organisations to ensure that patients at risk of falling are identified, preventative interventions are delivered and that for those that do fall, multifactorial care plans are in place. North Staffs and Stoke-on-Trent CCG have been highlighted as poor performers in relation to falls related admissions, as defined in the NHS England Improvement and Assessment Framework 1 The service will be expected to reduce the number of falls related admissions to hospital and by working collaboratively with other services, will support a reduction in costs associated with treatments for hip and other fragility fractures.

The CCGs will be holding a potential bidders event on Wednesday 30th November, 12 - 1pm; to provide more information about the objectives of the service, clarify procurement timelines and allow

organisations to ask further questions

Additional information: If and when this requirement is offered to tender, this will be done via

electronic means using the internet. Midlands and Lancashire CSU is

conducting this procurement exercise as a central purchasing body for another NHS body with whom the successful bidder(s) will enter into contracts for the supply of the services. Any other public sector body wishing to access the contract may do so only with permission from the contracting NHS body.

The contract conditions will be set out in the Invitation to Tender. Further details will be made available via documentation and information released during the course of the tender process. Submission of expression of interest and procurement specific information. The Procurement exercise will be conducted on the Midlands and Lancashire CSU portal at: https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk

Candidates wishing to be considered must register their expression of interest details and provide additional procurement-specific information via e-mail to details supplied in this message. Candidates should be registered on the portal at

https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk (registration and use of the website is free of charge). If your organisation has registered previously, you do not need to re-register;

• ii)Once registered, candidates must also confirm their expression

of interest by: a) emailing the relevant information to Roman Klimczak (Email: r.klimczak@nhs.net and sharon.wilson35@nhs.net). For technical support in registering your details with Bravo Solutions, the BravoSolution please contact their help-desk on +44 8003684850 or email: help@bravosolution.co.uk The CCGs will be holding a potential bidders event on Wednesday 30th November, 12 - 1pm; to provide more information about the objectives of the service, clarify procurement timelines and allow organisations to ask further questions. Venue details will be available closer to the date and can be obtained by e-mailing sharon.wilson35@nhs.net and deborah.boone12@nhs.net

This notice also appears in OJEU reference 2016/S 226-411683