City and Hackney PTWA - New Members Admission - 2023-24

The Psychological Therapies and Wellbeing Alliance (PTWA) is an innovative collaborative contracting arrangement that aims to:

1. Co-ordinate the provision of Psychological Therapies and Wellbeing services across all City and Hackney providers.

2. To provide patients with an integrated point of access and to ensure that resources and patient flows are balanced between services to avoid the build-up of long waiting lists.

3. To ensure that the full range of needs are met, closing gaps in service provision.

The PTWA board co-ordinates and integrates service provision between providers in the psychological therapies' pathway through a structure of shared performance and contractual framework, shared targets, aims and through sharing expertise, best practice, training and development.

One of the providers is appointed as a fund holder who receives the funds from the ICB and pay the funds to the other providers.

The Alliance itself is underpinned by an alliance agreement that is signed by all of the providers and the ICB. This enshrines the role of a PTWA board where the providers and the ICB are jointly and severally responsible for key decisions about the delivery of services and allocation of the available funds.

The PTWA is open to the admission of new members. This PIN is to publicise to any organisations that is interested in joining the alliance; that they can apply to join the alliance by responding to this notice.

Any applicant will be asked to prove they meet the essential criteria as a condition of admission as an alliance member.

Once admitted as a new alliance member the organisation can take part in the discussions with the alliance board and be able to propose services that can improve the delivery of the PTWA in City and Hackney.

Essential criteria from entry of new members in the PTWA: Organisations considering to be part of the PTWA must meet the following ESSENTIAL criteria at of their application:

• Essential/pass criteria 1: The applicant must be an established provider of services (at least 18 months of locally provided services) which are integral to the psychological therapies' pathway, common mental health problems or severe mental illness.

• Essential/pass criteria 2: All psychological therapists providing any Psychological Therapy service, are fully accredited with the relevant national professional body and outcomes and activity are reported on to the Alliance as relevant and appropriate

• Essential/pass criteria 3: The applicant must receive a minimum of £100K of annual recurrent statutory funding annually (ICB or local authority funding) for the provision of services to City and Hackney residents.

• Essential/pass criteria 4: The applicant must be able to pass due diligence check of necessary policies, procedures and accounts required before an NHS Standard Contract can be awarded. This includes CQC registration where relevant.