NHS England - Health Needs Assessment Services
What the buyer wrote
NHS England wishes to commission health needs assessments for the healthcare service in some prisons, in police custody, and for an immigration removal centre. To commission effectively, it is essential that the commissioning cycle begins with a health needs assessment which examines the health needs of the establishment(s). This enables the commissioning team to understand disease prevalence, services which respond to the health needs and to receive evidence-based recommendations for the services. The requirement is best practice in relation to commissioning, but is also mentioned in ‘Expectations’ (HMIP) in the section on governance: ‘32. Prisoners are cared for by a health service…
Details
- What the buyer calls it
- NHS England - Health Needs Assessment Services
- How they are buying
- The buyer did not say
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 30 Jun 2015
- Work ends
- 9 Sep 2015
Who the buyer named
Lucy Blackshaw was the named contact on this notice.