Mental Health Step Down from Recovery Services/Supported Pathway Review

This is an Advertisement for Soft Market Testing to gauge market interest which will influence future Commissioning and Procurement Direction.

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) on behalf of NHS South Worcestershire, NHS Redditch and Bromsgrove and NHS Wyre Forest Clinical Commissioning Group (the CCGs) and Worcestershire County Council (WCC) are looking to bring together in an engagement event existing partner agencies, clinicians and providers with experience of this field, who might be interested in increasing opportunities for people with severe and enduring mental health issues in terms of their options for move on from recovery units and supported housing to more community based solutions.

The CCGs and WCC are reviewing the pathway of services for patients stepping down from secondary mental health recovery units /supported housing.

The CCG and WCC would like to understand where the gaps are in provision and look at good practice examples from other areas with innovative ways to deliver the services.

The outcomes of the event will then determine next steps for the Commissioning and Procurement of these services.

Providers are invited to a Market Engagement event which will be held on the 5th October 2016 at the Lakeside Room County Hall Worcestershire County Council Spetchley Road Worcester WR5 2NP. Full details on specific timing of this event will be made available to those expressing interest from this advertisement.

To register for the event please email Carol Rowley Mental Health Services Commissioning Manager for Worcestershire CCG's. Email address is:

carol.rowley@worcestershire.nhs.uk

Closing date for registering interest is 28th September 2016 at 12 noon.

Please note that after this deadline participation cannot be guaranteed.

It should be noted that this is not a procurement exercise and participating organisations are responsible for their own costs.

The services to which this notice relates fall within the Light Touch Regime threshold set by Public Contracts Regulation 2016.

Neither the publication of this notice nor the employment of any particular terminology nor any other indication shall be taken to mean that the contracting authorities intend to hold themselves bound by any of the Regulations save those applicable to the procurement of these services.