WA12138 - Integrated Healthcare Services to Isle of Wight Prisons for NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE/I) South East

NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE/I) South East seeks to commission a prime provider who has the capability and capacity to deliver Integrated Healthcare Services to the following establishments on the Isle of Wight.

NHSE/I will hold a contract with the prime provider, who in turn can directly provide care and/or subcontract elements to other specialist providers.

This service will be commissioned as part of the overall Offender Health pathway within the prisons and as such this model will ensure an integrated, recovery orientated service delivery system, both within the prisons and onwards into the community. The service will focus on delivering person-centred care within seamless, integrated structured clinical and psychosocial interventions services in prison, and facilitating arrangements through the gate into the community to ensure effective continuity of care. Close joint working with other healthcare services, as well as other departments within the prison is imperative to the success of the delivery of this service.

The healthcare services in the contract include (please see the service specification for full list of services):

• Dietetics
• Weight management
• Optometry
• Pain management
• Physiotherapy
• Podiatry
• Audiology
• Memory Clinics / Dementia Pathway
• Personality Disorder
• Occupational Therapy
• Speech and Language Therapy
• Talking Therapies and counselling
• Access to external community services

The provider will also be responsible for ensuring that effective and meaningful pathways of care are established with secondary care/diagnostics and other services outside of this specification, including hospital-based services, to meet patients' health needs.

The contract is due to commence on 1st April 2023, and the contract duration will be 7 years. The maximum contract value is 48,027,000 over the contract term. The maximum contract envelope is based on current operational capacity figures. Any change to prison population(s) will be managed through a contract variation process.

Interested providers will be able to view this notice on Atamis (https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome)