Kirklees Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Concepts

• health services
• huddersfield
• children mental health support
• disability mental health support
• mental health
• adolescent mental health services
• kirklees child
• child
• kirklees
• health

Location

Services will be provided to the population within the area served by Kirklees Health & Care Partnership (formerly NHS Kirklees Clinical Commissioning Group)

Description

Provision of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) to the population of Kirklees. The scope of provision includes all core clinical elements of CAMHS (formerly “Tier 3”), learning disability mental health support and looked after children mental health and vulnerable young people’s placement support.

Total Quantity or Scope

Provision of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) to the population of Kirklees. The scope of provision includes all core clinical elements of CAMHS (formerly “Tier 3”), learning disability mental health support, looked after children mental health support and vulnerable young people’s placement support. Following a review of the services within the scope of the contract, the commissioner is clear that the overall contract is capable of being provided only by the incumbent provider. This is a VEAT notice for the direct award of contract of 1 year to the incumbent provider.

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 85100000 - Health services

Indicators

Legal Justification

Commissioners are confident that an award of a new contract to a single provider without advertisement is justified and are satisfied that the overall contract is capable of being provided only by that provider. The Commissioner’s guiding principles being: • the requirement to commission services from those providers that are most capable of securing the needs of health care service users and improving the quality and efficiency of services, and that provide the best value for money in doing so. • the requirement to consider appropriate means of improving NHS health care services. The Commissioner has carried out a detailed review of the provision of particular services in its local area in order to understand how those services can be improved and, as part of that review, identified the most capable provider or providers of those services. The review has included an assessment to determine past and current performance, capability and capacity for the provider to deliver the future requirements of the contract. In the context of the review undertaken and the recommendations derived from a collaborative approach to what needs to change, the Commissioner has been able to identify with reasonable certainty that it is the incumbent provider that is capable of providing the contract (or that is capable of developing the capacity/infrastructure to do so) and to determine the incumbent provider is most capable of securing the needs of health care service users and of improving services, and represent best value for money for the contract period required from 1st April 2024.