North and Mid Hampshire Community Diabetes Service

Description

North and Mid Hampshire ICP is seeking the views of Healthcare Providers in relation to a new Community Diabetes Service for North Mid Hampshire (covering Basingstoke, Winchester, Andover and their rural surroundings). The anticipated value of the Service is GBP £500,000 per annum. Lot 1: F15516 - North and Mid Hampshire Community Diabetes Service North and Mid Hampshire ICP Request for Information (RFI) North and Mid Hampshire ICP is seeking the views of Healthcare Providers in relation to a new Community Diabetes Service North Mid Hampshire (covering Basingstoke, Winchester, Andover and their rural surroundings). In the North and Mid Hampshire area, there are approximately 21,000 people living with diabetes, which includes approximately 19,000 patients with Type 2 diabetes. From prevalence figures, we estimate that a further 10,000 people (based on 6.73% CCG prevalence), have yet to be diagnosed. The prevalence of diabetes is increasing at about 8% per annum in the under 75 age group. The anticipated value of the Service is GBP £500,000 per annum. This is a process designed to help the Commissioner form a view of the best way to commission the service and is not the beginning of a Tender exercise. A draft copy of the specification is embedded in the RFI document and can be accessed via our eTendering portal. Please complete your response and return via our eTendering Portal, reference: - F15516 - North and Mid Hampshire Community Diabetes Service RFI - by 12:00 Midday on Monday 6th June 2022. Aims and objectives of the service are: • Educating and supporting healthcare professionals. • Advice and Guidance to GPs; • Interventions with patients, who are unable to be managed in Primary Care, using clinically effective therapies and management plans and sharing the therapy changes made or care plans with Primary Care; • Patient education and empowerment - providing various education programmes for patients with diabetes to promote healthy lifestyles and the capacity of patients to self-manage their condition • Health Care Professional education • Utilising the full range of Diabetes trained clinicians in an MDT format to prevent diabetes as well as monitor and treat diabetes patients • Effective cross organisational working and communication. (Primary Care, Secondary care, ICT teams, PCNs, community services, retinal screening services, Lifestyle services, Local Council, Third sector organisations, Patient support groups) Thank you - we appreciate your time and effort in completing this RFI. Additional information: Instructions on how to access the RFI via our E-tendering portal: 1) Browse the SoEPS Commissioning Support portal: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning 2) Click the "Register" link on the left-hand side of the page. 3) Enter your correct business and user details. 4) Note the email address and password chosen and Click "Register My Company" when complete. 5) Login to the portal with the username/password. 6) You will be prompted to change your password on first login. 7) Hover your mouse over the "Tenders" button on the main toolbar and choose the relevant option: - "My Tenders" shows a list of the opportunities in which you have already expressed an interest or to which you have been invited; - "Awarded" shows a list of tenders awarded on the system (where these are were open to all); - "Current" shows a list of all the advertised opportunities on the system (i.e., open to all) in which you are able to express an interest; - "Forthcoming" shows a list of pipeline projects (including those in which providers can still express an interest - i.e., deadlines not yet reached). 8) Click on the "View Details" button for relevant opportunity to access the content, clicking "Express an Interest" where required to do so. 9) Click the relevant procurement as required then click the "Opt-In" at the bottom of the page to start building your submission to the procurement stage. This will move the project over to your "My Tenders" page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only). 10) Note the deadline for completion and follow the on screen instructions to complete the RFI, accessing any attached documents as required. 11) Any questions on specific opportunities should be directed through the portal messaging facility.