National Programme of Autism Training for Psychiatrists
A Contract Award Notice
by HEALTH EDUCATION ENGLAND
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Type
- Contract (Services)
- Duration
- not specified
- Value
- £1M
- Sector
- PROFESSIONAL
- Published
- 23 Sep 2022
- Delivery
- not specified
- Deadline
- n/a
Concepts
Location
Leeds
1 buyer
- Health Education England Leeds
1 supplier
Description
Health Education England are putting out this notice as a VEAT (Voluntary Ex anti Transparency Notice) with a view to completing a Direct Award to The Royal College of Psychiatrists.The case for direct award can be found on the tender portal.HEE is seeking a provider to appoint a provider to deliver The National programme of Autism training for Psychiatrists The programme of work is expected to take place over three years from commencement in October 2022-to 31 March 2025, subject to annual funding reviews.
Total Quantity or Scope
HEE delivers across the 7 NHS regions in England (Northeast and Yorkshire, North West, Midlands, East of England, South West, South East and London) and any potential supplier would be required to deliver training that would ensure psychiatry capabilities are developed in all of these regions. Health Education England is committed to working with people and families and will require that this programme of work is co-developed and delivered with autistic people and their families. Delivery organisations will be expected to outline how they proposed develop and deliver the programme in co-production with autistic people and their families as part of their proposal. The programme of work is expected to take place over three years from commencement in October 2022-to 31 March 2025, subject to annual funding reviews. The contract will be offered aligned to this approach with an ability to review and refine the requirements in response to information and data from the end of year evaluation report.
Award Detail
| 1 | Royal College of Psychiatrists (London)
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Award Criteria
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CPV Codes
- 80000000 - Education and training services
Legal Justification
The RCPsych is the only supplier with the requisite expertise and experience to assist HEE and NHSE achieve its deliverables and actions set out in UK government policy and the Long-Term Plan to reduce health inequalities for autistic people, to: -(i) tackle heath inequalities - by ensuring specialist autism teams across the country have access to a sufficient supply of highly skilled psychiatrists with enhanced skills in autism diagnosis, and therapeutic approaches. (ii) improve community support for autistic people – by ensuring that consultant psychiatrists working across a range of community specialities, including mental health, children and young people, older adults, and forensic services, are skilled in the recognition and assessment of autism. (iii) improve support within the criminal and youth justice systems – by ensuring that psychiatrists working in these settings are skilled in the recognition and assessment of autism.Specifically, the Royal College of Psychiatrists can provide access to a breadth of national expertise in neurodevelopmental psychiatry to support the design, development and delivery of a training programme that will offer the diversity of training needed, to develop both an enhanced autism specialist offer, and a foundation autism training programme for psychiatrists in wider community services.
Other Information
The contract will be offered aligned to this approach with an ability to review and refine the requirements in response to information and data from the end of year evaluation report.HEE believes that it is highly unlikely for any other supplier to be able to provide the following skills/tools provided by The Royal College of Psychiatrists as a supplier for the following reasons:Lack of knowledge, in-depth experience, capacity, and capabilities to deliver the programme ** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. **
Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-036b3e
- FTS 026793-2022