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The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust

Contract for the provision of multi-compartment compliance aids to identified in-patients immediately following discharge

Medical Equipment & PharmaCPV 33600000
Value£396k
Awarded21 Sept 2016
Published21 Mar 2018
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£396ktotal contract value
median £123k
this tender£0£16.5m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Medical Equipment & Pharmaceuticals band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 9,456 valued Medical Equipment & Pharmaceuticals tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Contract aims to provide in-patients with medicines immediately following discharge in Monitored Dosage Systems (MDS) for those identified as admitted into hospital using MDS or assessed as being unable to self administer their medication by other means whilst an in-patient.

Some of the Contract's aims are as follows:- - Ensure timely delivery of medicines to the hospital - Ensure communication of the discharge letter requirements for patients between the patient, The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust (Trust), the successful Pharmacy (Provider), the General Practitioner (GP) and the patient's previous community pharmacy - Implement holistic medicines reconciliation by providing better information to patients, GPs and community pharmacies about changes to medicines at discharge - Achieve collaborative working to ensure that both requests for newly initiated MDS at discharge are appropriate and that ongoing provision of MDS for all patients is appropriate

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The Contract aims to provide in-patients

The Contract aims to provide in-patients with medicines immediately following discharge in Monitored Dosage Systems (MDS) for those identified as admitted into hospital using MDS or assessed as being unable to self administer their medication by other means whilst an in-patient.

02

Ensure timely delivery of medicines to

Ensure timely delivery of medicines to the hospital.

03

Ensure communication of the discharge letter requirements

Ensure communication of the discharge letter requirements for patients between the patient, The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust (Trust), the successful Pharmacy (Provider), the General Practitioner (GP) and the patient's previous community pharmacy.

04

Implement holistic medicines reconciliation by providing better

Implement holistic medicines reconciliation by providing better information to patients, GPs and community pharmacies about changes to medicines at discharge.

05

Achieve collaborative working to ensure that both

Achieve collaborative working to ensure that both requests for newly initiated MDS at discharge are appropriate and that ongoing provision of MDS for all patients is appropriate.

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Source & provenance
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5ed3719d-e6fa-4e3b-97f7-08b965b52400
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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