Child Health Information Service (CHIS)

Background

The purpose of Child Health Information Services (CHIS), and the Systems that support them, is to ensure that each child in England has an accurate active record supporting delivery of public health interventions including; screening and childhood and adolescent immunisations for which detailed service specifications are set out in the annual NHS Public Health Functions Agreement and the Healthy Child Programme services.

The CHIS enable the health protection, promotion, and failsafe activities for clinical delivery to be carried out in a timely way. The children and young people population covered by CHIS are those:

• Registered with a General Practice in the area;
• Resident in the specified area whether registered with a General Practice or not;
• Educated in the London area.

The Provider will be required to show that the healthcare premises comply with BS ISO/IEC 17799-2005 (Code of Practice for Information Security Management) and ISO 27001:2005 (Information Security Management Systems - Requirements) for all systems used to provide IM&T Services unless otherwise agreed with the Commissioner.

CHIS Operating Model

• Delivery will be in line with the national CHIS schedule 2 service specification with some regional enhancements to meet local population need.

The Procurement will be Undertaken via 5 lots:

Lot 1 - North Central London Lot 2 - North East London Lot 3 -North West London Lot 4 - South East London Lot 5 - South West London

The contract(s) for the Service will be awarded for a period of 3 years (36 months), with an optional extension for a further period of up to 2 years (24 months) at the sole discretion of the Authority. Therefore, the maximum duration of this contract, if all extension options are taken up will be up to 5 years (60 months).