Children’s Community Health Services

Surrey Heartlands ICB, Surrey County Council, Frimley ICB and NHS England are seeking to secure a model of care for children’s community health services across Surrey (and North East Hampshire as per individual service specifications). These community services focus on prevention of ill health, advising on child development and providing targeted and specialist medical, nursing, immunisation or therapy services when needed (for example because a child has a developmental delay, disability, or significant health difficulties). Safeguarding and early intervention are central to this.

Commissioning organisations would like to hear from organisations who have the experience, capability and capacity to deliver the ambition laid out in this PIN notice. This is not an invitation to tender.

The commissioning organisations warmly invite you to take part in market engagement activities for potential and existing providers of Children’s Community Health provision to support us in defining the scope of services and to test our aspirations. Interested organisations are invited to review and respond to the questions included in this PIN and are also invited to register to attend virtual 1:1 Provider Sessions where the commissioning organisations will outline our plans for the procurement and contract for the provision of children community health services.

The Children’s Community Health Services will be commissioned via a joint NHS contract: NHS Surrey Heartlands ICB (SHICB) are the Awarding Authority for these services, on behalf of itself and Commissioners as listed below:

1.NHS Frimley ICB

2.Surrey County Council

3.NHS England

Surrey County Council will be leading the procurement process on behalf of itself, Surrey Heartlands ICB, Frimley ICB and NHS England.

We will be contracting a standard NHS contract, with standard terms and conditions.

Children’s Community Health Services in Surrey comprise a wide range of community-based services that support physical and emotional health and wellbeing amongst children and young people from birth up to 19 years of age and their families and carers. These services focus on:

• preventing ill health
• promoting and supporting child development
• providing targeted and specialist medical, nursing, immunisation, and therapy services

The purpose of this market engagement will be to:

• Share with you our vision and priorities for the development of Children’s Community Health provision in Surrey.
• Learn together about what is working well and what we can improve in how we commission and deliver Children’s Community Health Provision in Surrey
• Explore the shared values and ways of working that will help us collaborate effectively in the future, as we begin the process of recommissioning the future Children’s Community Health Provision offer; and
• Develop a joint understanding of the outcomes for children and young people that we want to enable through the provision of Children’s Community Health Provision in Surrey

For this purpose, contracting authorities may for example seek or accept advice from independent experts, or from market participants. That advice may be used in the planning and conduct of the procurement process. The commissioning organisations assure all participants that the advice received will not have the effect of distorting competition, and we abide by principles of non-discrimination and transparency.

The commissioning organisations would like to invite Providers with relevant experience, capability, and capacity to deliver these services to register for the Market Engagement 1:1 Provider Sessions in relation to Children’s Community Health services. The detailed service requirements are still in development, and information gathered from these sessions will inform key outcomes as well as the procurement process. It is anticipated that the tender opportunity will be published by Summer 2023 through Proactis: https://supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/Account/Login?cid=surreycc#