NHS England and NHS Improvement South Integrated Healthcare Service to Lansdowne Secure Children's Home (East Sussex) and Swanwick Lodge (Hampshire)

NHS England and NHS Improvement South (South East) (the Commissioner) invites expressions of interest (EOI) from suitably qualified and experienced Prime Providers to provide an integrated healthcare service, including physical health, mental health and substance misuse services to the children and young people (aged 13 - 17) at two Secure Childrens Homes in the South East: • Lansdowne (East Sussex) • Swanwick Lodge (Hampshire) The provision must offer equivalence of access and quality to healthcare provision for children and young people in the community. The Homes are operated by the relevant County Council Children's Departments, with a registered homes manager and 24 hour care staff available.

There is also an onsite school in each setting that provides education to the young people whilst they are at the Homes. The providers will be required to work effectively with these key partners to deliver a cohesive experience of care for the children and young people.

The young people arrive at the Homes from a wide range of localities in the country and will also leave the Homes for a diverse range of settings across the Country. The healthcare services that are required 'on site' include: • Physical health provision that will complete relevant health assessments (CHAT), support health care planning, offer low threshold physical health interventions (including initial sexual health interventions) and enable access to community and acute health settings where clinically appropriate. • Mental health provision that will complete relevant mental health assessments, support health care planning and case formulation, provide clinical consultation and supervision for non-clinical Secure Childrens Home staff and offer a range of planned and non-planned therapeutic interventions to young people. • Substance misuse provision that will offer relevant substance misuse assessments, support health care planning, offer low threshold planned brief interventions to address substance misuse. • Active positive mental, emotional and physical health promotion activities and campaigns. • GP provision that offers access to GP appointments.

The healthcare provision will also ensure access for the children and young people to community based dentists and opticians provision with the support of Secure Childrens Home care staff. Additional information: NHSE & NHSI South (South East) will seek to commission a prime provider model for the provision of services and will hold a contract with the prime provider, who in turn can directly provide care and/or subcontract care to other specialist providers.

NHSE and NHSI South wish to facilitate a discussion with potential prime providers about the feasibility of procuring a single provider for both sites or a single prime provider for each site. The invitation to attend the event is specifically for Prime providers only.

Please provide the requested attendee details by using the correspondence function of the system. The procurement exercise will be undertaken with potential prime providers, but specialist providers of the services being commissioned may also respond to this notice if they would like commissioners to pass their contact details on to potential prime providers.

Please ensure that you indicate in your response whether your organisation is expressing an interest as a potential prime provider or in order for your details to be passed on as a potential sub-contractor This notice is an information gathering exercise rather than a call for competition in its own right, and therefore publication or response does not commit NHS England or respondents to a future procurement or to any award of contracts, nor provide any process exemptions or preferential treatment to any parties expressing an interest. NHS England will not be liable for costs incurred by any interested party in participating in this exercise. The services are healthcare services falling within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations").