Market Engagement Exercise - Homecare Services (Northern Ireland)

This Prior Information Notice seeks engagement with the market to understand current and future capacity in respect of Homecare Services to Northern Ireland.

Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland (HSC) are keen to engage with suppliers who would be willing to provide homecare medicines services to patients living in Northern Ireland.

A homecare medicine service may be defined as one that delivers medicine supplies and associated care, directly to a patient’s home or other suitable community based location.

The service would be provided from a registered pharmacy, and would include dispensing of medication in accordance with a hospital prescription, delivery to the patient; supply of any ancillary items or equipment that is required, as well as waste management.

The provider will be required to provide a prescription management service, as well as communicating directly with the patient regarding the supply of their medication.

Further information on homecare medicines services is available at https://www.rpharms.com/recognition/setting-professional-standards/professional-standards-for-homecare-services

If you would like to participate in this market engagement exercise, please register your interest by emailing PDRandOps.Sourcing@hscni.net, confirming the company name, contact person, email and telephone.

Please register your interest no later than Friday 10th June.

Market engagement will likely take the form of a Zoom meeting which will focus on a standard brief that will be provided to those interested, and a set of standard question.

Please note, this is not a call for competition.