NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board Doncaster Place Community Crisis Peer Support Service:

The NHS Long Term Plan makes a renewed commitment to improve and widen access to care for adults needing mental health support.

The NHS Plan also promises to increase alternative forms of provision for those in crisis. Sanctuaries, safe havens and crisis cafes provide a more suitable alternative to A&E for many people experiencing mental health crisis, usually for people whose needs are escalating to crisis point, or who are experiencing a crisis, but do not necessarily have medical needs that require A&E admission

Community crisis alternative services are commissioned through the NHS and local authorities, provided at relatively low costs, high satisfaction, and usually delivered by voluntary sector partners.

Models such as crisis houses and acute day care services, host families and clinical decision units can also prevent admission. The NHS will work hand in hand with the voluntary sector and local authorities on these alternatives and ensuring they meet the needs of patients, carers and families.

The Clinical Review of Standards makes recommendations for embedding urgent and emergency mental health in waiting time standards. This means that everyone who needs it can expect to receive timely care in the most appropriate setting, whether that is through NHS 111, accessing a liaison mental health service in A&E, or a community-based crisis service.

The contract will be for three years with an option to extend for a further 2 years making a total of five years. The annual spend will not exceed £364,139. The value in this notice is for the full 5 years