Community MSK Service in BLMK

Concepts

• health services
• luton
• community msk service
• msk services
• msk patients
• blmk
• local community services
• msk conditions
• msk
• community hubs

Location

Bedfordshire, Luton & Milton Keynes

Description

NHS Bedfordshire, Luton & Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board are seeking a suitable organisation for the provision of Community MSK Service including support for chronic pain in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes. The key objective is to enable patients with MSK conditions and those living with chronic pain to live a full and healthy life. The Service provider will offer a standardised, transparent, and coordinated patient pathway for MSK patients in a responsible and environmentally sustainable way across all relevant healthcare settings in BLMK. The Service provider will ensure patients receive a consistent experience, feel supported, informed and empowered throughout the whole pathway and receive the optimal treatment at the right time.

Total Quantity or Scope

The Service provider will ensure patients receive a consistent experience, feel supported, informed and empowered throughout the whole pathway and receive the optimal treatment at the right time.The Service provider will need to provide a high-quality experience, ensuring patients are triaged and treated as early as possible in their pathway to prevent worsening of symptoms, improve outcomes, reduce unnecessary secondary care activity, and avoidable repeat referrals.The Service will reduce health inequalities across the BLMK geographical area by engaging and working with local community services and groups, to improve access and up-take of MSK services across the BLMK footprint. This will include some focused activity within targeted areas of BLMK, as highlighted by the Health Needs assessment and Health Inequalities studies. The Service provider will work collaboratively with ICS partners, including the Social Prescribing Link Workers, Community Hubs and the VCSE sector to support residents to lead economically active lives.The Service provider will consider its impact on the environment, designing and delivering services in a way which minimises its carbon footprint.The contract will be for a period of up to 10 years commencing on 01st November 2025. It is anticipated that the service provision resultant of this procurement will have a maximum value of £127,870,000 (excluding VAT) over the term of the contract.The procurement is being run via the Atamis e-system where all procurement documents are available for download. Providers who do not have an account can register at the link here,https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome. The deadline for receipt of bid submissions via the Atamis e-system is 12noon on 11th December 2024.

CPV Codes

• 85100000 - Health services

Indicators

• This is a one-off contract (no recurrence)
• Renewals are not available.

Other Information

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