Adult Healthy Behavior Service Market Engagement

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Market Engagement Notice. The procurement of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this procurement.

Introduction

Croydon Council are looking to procure an Adult Healthy Behaviours Service, providing structured support for smoking cessation, alcohol reduction and overweight / obesity weight management.

The aim of the service is to:

Contribute to the reduction in health inequalities, including socio-economic, ethnic and gender inequalities.

Increase life expectancy in the borough by actively targeting specific priority groups.

Reduce differences in healthy life expectancy between communities. Targeting services at residents at the greatest risk of poor healthy life expectancy.

Contribute to the reduction of preventable ill health by reducing heart disease, stroke, and some cancers.

Improve health outcomes and quality of life, with a better chance of putting in place positive ways to substantially reduce the risk of cardiovascular morbidity, premature death, or disability.

The service is required to provide support which allows individuals to modify their behaviour. To reduce risk factors that contribute to early death and reduced quality of life namely:

Smoking:

Contribute to the overall reduction of the number of people that smoke.

Healthy Weight:

Promote a healthy weight amongst adults to reduce rates of obesity and overweight.

Alcohol Identification and Brief Advice:

Promote knowledge of the harms caused by excessive alcohol consumption. To screen those residents drinking at increasing and high-risk levels.

Nutrition:

Increase knowledge around the nutritional content of foods, by raising awareness to harms caused by energy dense foods that are high in fats and sugars as well as by the promotion of healthy nutritional diets.

Health Promotion:

Deliver opportunistic health education advice to further promote access to health and wellbeing e.g., being physically active, dental care, immunisations and screening, flu jabs, or NHS Health Checks.

To promote Better Health national campaigns.

Service Design

To address the needs of those in priority groups and areas of high Indices of Deprivation we will be procuring the following model:

A lead provider, working in collaboration with local voluntary, community and faith sector (VCFS) providers to deliver a neighbourhood-based Adult Healthy Behaviours service.

This will allow us to provide better outcomes for residents, reflect population needs, address service challenges and maximise opportunities.

Market Engagement Event

We wish to invite prospective service providers as well as Voluntary, Community and Faith Sector (VCFS) representatives. To outline our requirements, answer questions, as well as begin conversations between providers and the VCFS, as to how they can best work together.

Date: April 16th 2026

Time: 2.00pm – 5.00pm

Place: The Braithwaite Hall, Croydon Clocktower, Katharine St,

Croydon CR0 1NX

Please register your interest to attend by clicking on the Express your Interest button, and send us a message including the following details:

Your Organization name.

Name & Job title of the delegates.

Email addresses of delegates.

On behalf of Croydon Council, we look forward to your attendance.