NW2024-67 Professional Therapeutic Pathway

Description

NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board sought competitive offers for the provision of the Professional Therapeutic Pathway Service.<br/><br/>The aim of the service is to establish and maintain a Professional Therapeutic Pathway (PTP) that will enable us to engage with new providers and clinicians who are not currently commissioned across children and young people’s (CYP) mental health services. This will bring additional capacity to the Norfolk and Waveney (N&W) system and ensure children; young people and their families (CYP&F) can access to support more quickly and reduce the current demand on existing service providers.<br/><br/>This contract is for a period of 3 years with the option to extend for up to an additional 2 years. The anticipated annual contract value is £450,000 per annum consisting of the Infrastructure budget: maximum £285,000 per annum and the Therapy budget: £165,000 per annum Lot 1: This notice is to communicate the intention to award a contract under the Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Competitive Process’.<br/><br/>The Service Aims to act as a lead provider for independent and Voluntary, community, faith, and social enterprise (VCFSE) providers not currently commissioned by the Norfolk & Waveney Integrated Care Board. The service will subcontract therapy from a range of accredited independent and VCFSE organisations to holistically meet the mental health needs of CYP, taking into account the family as a whole. The service will support CYP who are unable to access mainstream services due to either complexity or long waiting lists.<br/><br/>Outcomes<br/><br/>• Ensure our CYP&F get the right support in the right place, at the right time.<br/>• Reduced health inequalities by working with CYP who are unable to access mainstream services for a range of reasons.<br/>• Improved access and experience for CYP with neurodiversity by tailoring packages of care to meet their needs<br/>• Improved collaborative and integrated approaches to working with key stakeholders.<br/>• Support a reduction in waiting lists for CYP mental health services by working with commissioned providers to deliver waiting list initiatives.<br/>• Improved outcomes for CYP&F as CYP are receiving earlier intervention and getting the right support at the right time.<br/>• Improved experience of mental health support services for CYP&F<br/><br/>The Professional Therapeutic Pathway (PTP) service will cover Norfolk & Waveney across a range of accessible sites and will deliver the following:<br/><br/>• Support a reduction in CYP waiting lists across Norfolk and Waveney.<br/>• Work with providers to establish a range of therapeutic interventions to meet identified need and demand.<br/>• Work alongside the Access, Advice and Support service for CYP emotional wellbeing and mental health<br/>• Ensure providers within the PTP have no more than one CYP waiting with a start date exceeding 4 weeks.<br/>• Continuously identify and engage talking and creative therapy professionals to grow the PTP capacity and skill mix to meet need.<br/>• Ensure that the PTP steering group continues to meet to agree and sign off future developments.<br/>• Review at least annually unit costs across the collaborative members.<br/>• Review at least annually referral process and reporting metrics with collaborative members.<br/>• Review at least annually payment terms and contracting with PTP therapeutic organisations and individual practitioners.<br/>• Provide regular reporting to Children and Young Person’s Alliance Executive Management Group (EMG) including performance against Key performance indicators (KPIs), successes, risks and future developments<br/>• Review at least annually the traffic light system to ensure complexity of referrals are seen by appropriately experienced therapists.<br/>• Maintain up to date quality and governance data on each subcontracted organisation to maintain high clinical governance.<br/>• Collate, for each organisation, current capacity available.<br/>• Ensure Mental health service data sets (MHSDS) submissions are sent on behalf of collaborative members, including activity and outcomes<br/>• Ensure practitioners consistently use and report appropriate Routine Outcome Measures as part of their inclusion on the PTP<br/>• Develop an approach which better responds to the increasing demand for support around CYP mental health and emotional wellbeing.<br/>• Effectively align service provision within the THRIVE framework for system change<br/>• Provide therapeutic services within a set of agreed standards and monitoring, in line with appropriate professional bodies e.g., British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), to ensure delivery of high-quality safe services.<br/>• Develop robust clinical governance to ensure that quality and safety is maintained to the highest standard<br/>• The service will ensure that therapists engaged in the PTP have adequate clinical supervision arrangements which follow NICE guidelines for frequency<br/><br/>This contract is for a period of 3 years with the option to extend for up to an additional 2 years. The anticipated annual contract value is £450,000 per annum.