Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Community Treatment, Monitoring and Review Service for NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board

This Contract Award Notice is to inform the market of the successful award of the Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Community Treatment, Monitoring and Review Service for patients within the Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin locality.

This service is for the treatment, monitoring and review of adult patients with ADHD and is designed to provide a safe and effective service within the community to patients across STW with an existing ADHD diagnosis requiring pharmacological and/or non pharmacological treatment for ADHD.

The service objectives are to provide a safe and effective service that will:

• Provide oversight of adults with ADHD on medication, including physical and mental health.
• Provide relevant advice, guidance, support and signposting to appropriate organisations and other professionals as appropriate.
• Provide oversight of medication that aligns to the NHS STW ICS local health formulary: Formulary (shropshireandtelfordformulary.nhs.uk).
• To provide the specialist element of shared care prescribing including all physical health checks as detailed by the ICP.
• To signpost individuals with ADHD to other agencies and sources of support as appropriate.
• To provide guidance on self-help strategies and recommendations for individuals in support of selfcare.

The service provider shall be appointed for a period of 3 years with the option to extend for up to a further 24 months. The annual Contract value is approximately £642,641.00. The Contract will commence on the 1st April 2023. The Standard NHS Terms and Conditions shall apply to this contract.

This is a block contract, 10% of the payment will be linked to outcomes i.e. 90% of the block payment will be fixed and 10% will be variable based on the achievement of the outcomes. The block will be reviewed during the contract period.

Additional information:

Light Touch Regime' services: This procurement is for services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations('Regulations'). Accordingly, the contracting authorities are only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authorities are not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. The procedure which the contracting authorities followed was set out in the ITT.

As the ICB is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply.