Assisted Falls Service

Assisted Falls Service for NHS Greater Preston, Chorley and South Ribble CCGs.

This is a Request for Information (RFI) published on behalf of NHS Greater Preston, Chorley and South Ribble Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs).

The purpose of this RFI is to gauge market interest for the provision of an Assisted Fall Service.

Falls and fall related injuries are a common and serious problem. At present, under the existing contractual arrangements that exist in residential and nursing homes across Greater Preston, Chorley and South Ribble, care staff are cautious to intervene following a fall and call upon the ambulance service to assist residents to get back on their feet.

The utilisation of a falls lifting service locally will provide faster response times to those in residential and nursing homes. There are also a number of falls amongst the frail & elderly in their own homes who have no support to assist them to get up. The utilisation of a falls lifting service locally will offer an appropriate alternative service to a 999 ambulance in the majority of cases.

This service will be provided to safely lift individuals who have fallen within a residential or nursing home, or in their own home if they are a Lifeline/Telecare customer.

The service will operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and for all referrals, a Responder is required to attend to the individual who has fallen within 1 hour for 90% of the cases 2 hours in 100% these cases.

In line with the service specification provided, this RFI is requesting the following information from prospective providers:

Please submit your response on a maximum of 5 sides of A4 (Calibri size 11 double spacing)

The information will be gathered and used to inform the CCGs as to how best to proceed going forward.

Additional information: Access to the documentation can be obtained from Contracts Finder. To express an interest in the delivery of this service please contact Paula.Williams16@nhs.net

Please note that expressions of interest will not be accepted by any other means other than as stated above.

The closing date for submitting 12pm 22nd Feb 2017.

Interested parties should note that in the event of there being a number of responses, then the 'Request for a Quote' will be taken from the list of interested providers who have responded.

The contract is for an initial one year period with an option to extend a further year.