Wheelchair & Postural Services - Hull & East Riding of Yorkshire

Description

NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (hereafter the Contracting Authority) is seeking to commission Wheelchair and Postural Services - Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire, through an open procurement process. The preferred Bidder will be required to demonstrate how they will deliver a clinically safe, high quality, dignified, cost effective service that puts the individual at the centre of their own care which supports and maintains their on-going health and wellbeing needs.
The service will be required to:
• Provide a timely, comprehensive holistic assessment of an individual's posture and mobility needs, taking into account medical condition, functional ability, social situation and environment;
• Provide posture, pressure relief and where appropriate, predictable changes in Wheelchair User needs;
• Provide a service that meets the Wheelchair Users wider health and wellbeing needs;
• Enhance and maintain the Wheelchairs Users quality of life;
• Support personalisation, independence and offer a Personal Wheelchair Budget where eligible and appropriate;
• Support an overall reduction in hospital admissions and/or length of stay; and
• Demonstrate Wheelchair Users (and carers) are central to the decision making in their wheelchair assessment and provision - evidenced through patient centred outcome measures.