NHS Personal Health Budgets - Delegation of Health Care Tasks to Personal Assistants

Personal Health Budgets (PHBs) provide flexibility and offer greater personal choice and control in meeting an individual's health and support needs.

Those eligible for a PHB who opt to take a Direct Payment may choose to employ Personal Assistants (PAs). A PA's role will vary according to the needs, lifestyle requirements and choices of each person they support.

When a PA is providing care and support to someone with healthcare needs, an important component of their role can include carrying out tasks that are of a clinical nature.

These tasks must be considered in the care planning process and be delegated to the PA by a registered practitioner who has the relevant occupational competence.

Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commissioning Group, Warwickshire North Clinical Commissioning Group and South Warwickshire Clinical Commissioning Group are seeking to engage with local, regional and national providers who are interested in offering non clinical and clinical training, competence assessment and clinical supervision services to PAs, as reflected in a persons defined care/support plan.

The work would need to be delivered in locations within Coventry and Warwickshire by appropriately qualified and competent practitioners with experience in delivering learning and development provision, an awareness of PHBs and the personalisation agenda and experience of working with PAs who work independently in the community.

An example of the range of training needs is detailed in the attachment included within this notice and includes:

1. Non-clinical
2. Clinical
3. Complex clinical

Further information can be found at the following link: https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/516_Delegation-of-healthcare-tasks-to-personal-assistants_S7.pdf

Interested providers are asked to register on the eProcurement system (EU Supply) at: https://uk.eu-supply.com/login.asp?B=AGCSU, access the project (title: NHS Personal Health Budgets - Delegated Health Care Tasks, reference: 37879) and complete and submit the short online questionnaire by the xxxxxx.

This information will assist the CCG in understanding the level of market interest, range of providers and the services that are potentially available. This will then inform the shaping of commissioning intentions in this area that may then lead to a procurement for some or all of the areas identified above.

Additional information: Interested providers are asked to register on the eProcurement system (EU Supply) at: https://uk.eu-supply.com/login.asp?B=AGCSU, access the project (title: NHS Personal Health Budgets - Delegation of Health Care Tasks to Personal Assistants, reference: 37879) and complete the short online questionnaire before submitting by 17:00 on the 10th January 2020.

Providers may raise queries via the eProcurement system messaging system.