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North Tyneside Council

Award of Preventative Services including Social Prescribing Service and Befriending

HealthcareCPV 85100000
Value£210k
Awarded1 Mar 2018
Published23 Aug 2018
RegionNorth East
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£210ktotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Health & Social Care band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

The brief

AWARD ONLY OF:- The Social Prescribing Service and the Befriending Service for a range of preventative services and approaches.

Social prescribing is an approach to healthcare that recognises that people's health, emotional and practical needs are all connected.

Meeting people's non-medical needs can benefit their health and wellbeing.

It enables a range of professional including GPs, nurses and other health and social care professionals to refer (or 'prescribe') people to a range of local, non-clinical services.

The services comprise:- 1.

Provision of practical support to vulnerable people.

Building community capacity by linking people together and also identifying volunteers who can support them.

2.Befriending for people who are very socially isolated.

3.Time limited 'enabling' to support people to access community services - this could be through a volunteer or a paid employee 4.More intensive 1-1 and longer term support where needed by trained professionals (broadly time limited).

5.Building community capacity - opportunities to support the development of new groups and activities where a need is identified.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Provision of practical support to vulnerable people

Provision of practical support to vulnerable people.

02

Building community capacity by linking people together

Building community capacity by linking people together and also identifying volunteers who can support them.

03

3.Time limited 'enabling' to support people

3.Time limited 'enabling' to support people to access community services.

04

4.More intensive 1-1 and longer term support

4.More intensive 1-1 and longer term support where needed by trained professionals (broadly time limited).

05

Opportunities to support the development of new

opportunities to support the development of new groups and activities where a need is identified.

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Source & provenance
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Stage
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