North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) are working for and on behalf of NHS South Tees Clinical Commissioning Group (STCCG) who wish to explore the market to understand if a Provider is able to deliver a Community Assessment Unit (CAU), based within the Day Hospital Unit at Redcar Primary Care Hospital and accessible to patients registered with a South Tees GP practice.

The CCG would like to commission a high quality, multi-disciplinary service designed to ensure that older people who are referred to the service have access to comprehensive geriatric assessment, led by either an Elderly Care Consultant or General Practitioner with Specialist Interest (GPwSI) in elderly care, receive a medical and / or social care diagnosis by a multi-disciplinary team (MDT), and are able to access treatment in the most appropriate setting without unnecessary delays, transfers of care or unnecessary admission to hospital.

The service provider will deliver a Consultant and/or GPwSI led MDT frail and/or complex patient clinic 3 sessions per week, on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at Redcar Primary Care Hospital, seeing up to 6 patients per clinic.

The number of appointments per clinic will be reviewed after 6 months to understand if there is capacity to increase this.

The Multidisciplinary team will consist of: Consultant and/or GPwSI, Nurse, Health Care Assistant, Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist and Social Worker.

The service will aim to provide a coherent, multi-disciplinary service designed to deliver care across traditional organisational boundaries that supports and adds value to patient care from General Practice and Primary Care and utilises community and acute provision to ensure patient needs are managed in a proactive, anticipatory, holistic and integrated way.

The providers will organise themselves to collaborate, cooperate and coordinate to achieve shared goals and to support the achievement of the best possible outcomes for patients.

NECS is utilising an electronic tendering tool to manage this procurement and communicate with potential providers.

Accordingly, there will be no hard copy documents issued to potential providers and all communications with NECS, including your submission, will be conducted via the portal https://In-tendhost.co.uk/necs hosted by In-Tend, the managed service provider for the NECS e-tendering system.

It is free to register on the portal, which can be accessed at any time of day.

Should potential providers have any queries, or are having problems registering on the portal, they should contact the In-Tend helpdesk by calling 0844 2728810 (Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm) or email support@in-tend.co.uk.

Please note the deadline for submission of all bids is 12 Noon on 22nd March 2016