NHS England and NHS Improvement South (South East) - Market Engagement Event- Integrated Healthcare Service to Kent and Medway Prisons

NHS England and NHS Improvement South (South East) (the Commissioner) invites expressions of interest (EOI) from suitably qualified and experienced Prime Providers, including third sector and social enterprise organisations, private and NHS organisations, to provide integrated pharmacy and primary healthcare services, and mental health and substance misuse services to Kent and Medway prisons, to be confirmed but likely to include; HMP Swaleside; HMP Elmley; HMP Standford Hill; HMP Maidstone; HMP East Sutton Park; HMP Rochester & HMP Cookham Wood. Provision includes an In Patient Unit at HMP Elmley and HMP Swaleside.

NHS England will hold a contract with the prime provider, who in turn can directly provide care and/or subcontract care to other specialist providers. The indicative date for the contract to commence is 1st April 2021.

The indicative annual contract value is £23,385,355. This service will be commissioned as part of the overall Offender Health pathway within the prisons and as such this model will ensure an integrated, recovery orientated service delivery system both within the prisons and onwards into the community.

The service will focus on delivering person-centred care within seamless, integrated structured clinical and psychosocial interventions/services in prison and facilitating arrangements through the gate into the community to ensure effective continuity of care. Close joint working with other healthcare services, as well as other departments within the prison such as Education, Offender Management, and Physical Education, is imperative to the success of the delivery of this service.

The clinical healthcare services in the contract are likely to include (but are not limited to): •Primary Care Nursing including Long Term Conditions nursing •Access to GP provision •Healthcare Administration •Multi Disciplinary approach to Pain Clinics •In Patients Unit Services including End of Life / Palliative Care •Mental health and emotional wellbeing services including: Primary and Secondary Mental Health and Learning Disability Services •Sexual Health Services •Clinical Substance Misuse Services •Psycho-social interventions service for substance misusers •Integrated Substance Misuse Services •Public health programmes including health promotion (including smoking cessation) •Responsibility for ensuring Pharmacy Services-Including mechanism for OOH provision and Medicine Management Service Delivery •Dentistry •Access to Optometry, Physiotherapy, Podiatry, and musculoskeletal provision •Appropriate administrative support (including data intelligence and reporting resource) In addition, the provider will be responsible for ensuring: •effective and meaningful pathways of care are established with ccommunity based specialist health provision, including hospital based services •The provider may potentially be responsible for social care provision following assessment, subject to co-commissioning arrangements with local authorities Additional information: The aim of the market engagement event is to work with potential prime providers to understand opportunities and barriers to providing these services. It is not yet determined whether pharmacy services are in scope of this procurement and providers who are interested in providing this service are welcome to attend the market engagement event, please register and complete a market questionnaire as detailed below.

Please also provide the following details; Name of attendee(s); Job Title of attendee(s); Organisation details, inc address and contact details. Please note there is a limit of 2 attendees per organisation.

NHS England will also hold 1:1 provider meetings on 27/11/19, to which prime providers will be formally invited. This event will be an opportunity for prime providers to discuss their completed market engagement questionnaire and the procurement in general, please hold this date in your diaries.

Interested providers will be able to view the market engagement event opportunity via the 'current tenders' list on In-Tend, available on the following link: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home. In order to return the questionnaire, you will need to be registered on In-Tend and 'express an interest' in the opportunity then upload the completed questionnaire to the placeholder provided.

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") which are not subject t