Hospital Aftercare Service
NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care BoardEstimated Value
Up to £198,271
Deadline
Not specified
Published
13 March 2026
Type
services
Overview
Hospital Aftercare Service. The service has the following objectives: •Support early facilitated patient discharge from hospital - following an attendance at Accident and Emergency; an acute inpatient stay or a planned surgical procedure. •Offer flexible, tailored levels of support once the patient returns home, which promotes and sustains independent living. •Offers non-medical interventions to patients following discharge from hospital to enable them to remain at home and prevent readmission due to lack of basic home support. •Help to reduce further hospital readmissions by supporting those people who have recently been discharged from hospital to receive longer term support when required. •To provide a programme of reablement focusing on skills for individual’s daily living, that enables them to live more independently and reduce the need for ongoing support. •Facilitates service user access into other voluntary and community based services that enables them to feel socially active and improves their capacity for independent living. •Support annual health and social care campaigns such as reducing excess winter deaths, including seasonal flu vaccination campaign •Improve patient experience and levels of confidence.
The expected outcomes of the Hospital Aftercare Service are: •Clients report that their confidence to remain at home and live independently has increased •That clients report good service satisfaction after a period of intervention from the service. •A reduction in the number of bed days required by clients accessing the service •A reduction in the use of hospital transport home following discharge •An increase in the numbers of early facilitated patient discharges from hospital •To maintain or reduce the percentage of patients that have a re-admission to hospital. BLMK ICB are intending to award a contract an existing provider following direct award process C for the following:
Hospital Aftercare Service The contract is for a period of 1 year from 1st April 2026. The expected lifetime value of the contract is £198,271.
Key dates
- Duration
- 1 year
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Award Details
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£198,271
Likely incumbents
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- 1
East London NHS Foundation Trust
2 contracts wonlatest 13 Mar 2026£355m
total awarded
- 2
Watling Street Practice
2 contracts wonlatest 1 Sept 2025 - 3
East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust
1 contract wonlatest 13 Mar 2026£15m
total awarded
- 4
South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
1 contract wonlatest 13 Mar 2026£5m
total awarded
- 5
People Potential Possibilities
1 contract wonlatest 13 Mar 2026£205,351
total awarded
East London NHS Foundation Trust is the most likely incumbent based on recency and category match. To win, bidders typically need a clearly differentiated proposition or a price advantage.
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NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care BoardKey Dates
Published
13 March 2026
Submission deadline
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