Liverpool Social Health Model: Enhanced Social Prescribing Services

Concepts

• health services
• warrington
• social work
• social prescribing services
• social health
• primary care based social prescribing schemes
• social prescribing
• mental health
• health
• social connections

Location

Warrington

Description

NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board (ICB) is looking to procure an enhanced social prescribing service for Liverpool in order to equip, systematically, universal and first level health services with rapid access to a core determinants response for their patients. This service will be core element in the delivery of a proportionate and integrated model of social health in Liverpool, improving the way health and care services routinely respond to non-clinical risk factors, particularly those associated with deprivation and mental distress. The service will integrate with priority healthcare pathways and primary care based social prescribing schemes across the city.

Total Quantity or Scope

The main objectives of setting up a Social Model of Health Services contract is as follows:  Provide a social welfare offer which is fully integrated into primary care and social prescribing services  Provide a blended social welfare and wellbeing offer for patients from mental health, pathway 0, perinatal, cancer, respiratory, urgent care services  Improve well-being, quality of life, social inclusion, community connectedness  Promote economic wellbeing and economic resilience  Support redistribution of demand for primary care, acute and social care services for better preventative health outcomes  Reduce duplication and fragmentation across social prescribing and well-being services in Liverpool  Contribute to the outcomes and evidence-base for social prescribing  Promote self-care  Promote the five ways to wellbeing  Provide advice clinics in health and community settings for patients  Support individuals to identify and access appropriate activities, assets, information and advice, develop and improve social connections  Help build health and wellbeing capacity in communities  Develop and strengthen effective partnerships and pathways  Appropriately support the service user to achieve their personal objectives  Collate, analyse and report to Commissioners on model impact

Renewal Options

24 months

CPV Codes

• 85100000 - Health services
• 85300000 - Social work and related services

Indicators

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

Other Information

This contract notice is to alert potential providers, who are professionally and technically capable to provide an Enhanced Social Prescribing Service, to contact the Cheshire and Merseyside ICB via email icbprocurementteam@cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk to express their interest to participate in the Invitation to Tender process. The ICB Procurement Team will assist the Bidders to access the full tender pack. All correspondence must be through email icbprocurementteam@cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk. This email also can be used to submit the completed bid response documents.