Provision of Occupational Health (OH) Services for OH Physician Resource, OH Services for the OH Service and Specialist Service Referrals

Description

Building on the Strategy of Control Period 6, Network Rail’s (NRs) Occupational Health (OH), Hygiene and Wellbeing vision, the commitment for Control Period 7 (CP7) is based on sustainable health. A key element of sustaining the workforce and ensuring NR are legally compliant in offering an Occupational Health Service, NR introduced the Inhouse Occupational Health Service (OHS) – the core service comprises OH technicians, OH advisers, clinical management, and governance, supported by an operational administration team. This service is delivered from twenty-two (22) of NR clinics. NR are seeking to award additional services to support NR’s inhouse OH service. In health and safety law, there are things NR must do to make sure workers’ health is not adversely affected by their work and that workers are medically fit to carry out their work safely. This includes:  Implementing health or medical surveillance when necessary.  Ensuring workers are medically fit to undertake the role required; and  Reviewing a risk assessment when a worker is returning to work following sickness absence or declares a health condition. This procurement supports the above as an important arm to the OHS. Lot 1 – Occupational Health Physicians, Occupational Health Services for the Occupational Health Service and Occupational Therapy Workplace Assessment & Neurodiversity Assessments. Lot 2 – Specialist referrals The requirement of specialist consultations, scans, assessments &and x-ray services to determine fitness to work either as part of the competence specific medical.