This notice is placed as a Prior Information Notice in relation to a pre-procurement market engagement event, 1:1 meetings and a market questionnaire.

NHS England and NHS Improvement South (South East) (the Commissioner) invites expressions of interest (EOI) from suitably qualified and experienced Prime Providers, including third sector and social enterprise organisations, private and NHS organisations, to provide integrated healthcare services including pharmacy, mental health and substance misuse to the Isle of Wight prisons - HMP Parkhurst & HMP Albany.

NHSE/I will commission a Prime Provider model for the provision of services and will hold a contract with the prime provider, who in turn can directly provide care and/or subcontract care to other specialist providers.

The indicative date for the contract to commence is 1st April 2023.

The annual contract value is expected to be in the region of £6.7million.

This service will be commissioned as part of the overall Offender Health pathway within the prisons and as such this model will ensure an integrated, recovery orientated service delivery system, both within the prisons and onwards into the community.

The service will focus on delivering person-centred care within seamless, integrated structured clinical and psychosocial interventions services in prison, and facilitating arrangements through the gate into the community to ensure effective continuity of care.

Close joint working with other healthcare services, as well as other departments within the prison is imperative.

The service model will likely encompass the following services (but not limited to): - • General Practitioners provision • Primary Care Nursing (including long term conditions) • Dental services • Pharmacy Services (including OOH provision) • Inpatient Unit facility (HMP Albany) • Substance Misuse Services • Primary and Secondary Mental Health and Learning Disability Services • Public health programmes including Health Promotion and Prevention • Musculoskeletal therapies • Smoking cessation • Blood Born Viruses testing to include funding, access and delivery (including provision of testing facilities where necessary) • Consultant-led pain management clinics • Therapies / clinics (including but not limited to) • Dietetics • Weight management • Optometry • Physiotherapy • Podiatry • Audiology • Memory Clinics / Dementia Pathway • Personality Disorder • Occupational Therapy • Speech and Language Therapy • Talking Therapies and counselling • Access to external community services • Sexual Health screening - Tiers (1 and 2) • Social Care (subject to future co-commissioning arrangements with Local Authorities) • Appropriate administrative and data management support The provider will also be responsible for ensuring effective and meaningful pathways of care are established with secondary care/diagnostics and other services outside of this specification, including hospital-based services, to meet patient's health needs.