0-19 Public Health Nursing & Healthy Child Programme

Concepts

• health and social work
• public health nursing & healthy child programme
• health visiting services
• weston super mare
• public health nursing
• specialist breastfeeding and parental adult mental health nursing services
• healthy child programme
• health visiting service
• children’s looked after nursing services
• national healthy child programme

Location

North Somerset Council

Description

• Health Visiting Services – delivering the Healthy Child Programme 0-5 and 5 universal mandated health visiting reviews. • School Nursing (5-19) Services – delivering the Healthy Child programme 5-19 and National Child Measurement Programme. • Specialist Breastfeeding and Parental Adult Mental Health Nursing Services (integrated within the Health Visiting Service). • Children’s Looked After Nursing Services.

Total Quantity or Scope

North Somerset Council is looking to recommission it's 0-19 public health nursing services for service delivery from 1st April 2022. The service will run for five years (60 months) until March 2027, with option of an additional two-year (24 month) extension until March 2029. It will be a fixed price contract with 100% quality scoring criteria applied to the tender evaluation. Estimated at £3,577,359 per year, the maximum total value of the contract is £25,042,000 over seven years. The national Healthy Child Programme (HCP) 0-19 was set out in 2009 and is an evidence-based universal programme available to all children and aims to ensure that every child gets the good start they need to lay the foundations of a healthy life. The 0-5 element of the HCP is led by health visiting services and the 5-19 element is led by school nursing services, with input from other partners as appropriate. The universal reach of the HCP provides an invaluable opportunity from early in a child’s life to identify families that are in need of additional support and children who are at risk of poor outcomes. The Health and Social Care Act 2012 sets out a local authority’s statutory responsibility for delivering and commissioning public health services for children and young people aged 5-19 years. This also includes the requirement to provide for the weighing and measuring of certain children through the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP). Responsibility for children's public health commissioning for 0-5 year olds, specifically health visiting, transferred from NHS England to local authorities in October 2015. Regulation requires that all families with babies receive five health visitor checks before their child reaches 2 and a half years old.

Renewal Options

Option of an additional two-year (24 month) extension.

CPV Codes

• 85000000 - Health and social work services

Indicators

• Bids should cover the whole contract.
• This is a recurring contract.
• Renewals are available.
• Award on basis of price and quality.