Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership: Incentivising Reform through contracting and payment.

NHS England and Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership (GMHSCP) are seeking external consultancy services to deliver a 12-week assignment to start in February 2017.

The requirement is to: 1.

Develop and produce a work programme (roadmap) for this work at a GM level including detail on milestones, deliverables, governance, leadership and how the work should be resourced.

2.Develop a business case in conjunction with key partners from the GM system and for GM Strategic Partnership Board approval to proceed with such a programme to accompany the roadmap.

3.Research and provide a comprehensive reference library of examples of innovative approaches to contracting and payment mechanisms using local, national and international best practice from healthcare, wider public sector and beyond.

The outputs of the work must be fully aligned to the overarching aims of the Greater Manchester Strategic plan 'Taking Charge of our health and Social Care in Greater Manchester' and the priorities and plans of the 10 Greater Manchester localities.

The procurement process for these requirements is expected to commence w/c 2nd January 2017.

Prior to commencing the competitive tendering process, prospective bidders are invited to participate in a conference call on Thursday 8th December 2016 at 11:00.

Members of the NHS England and GMHSCP Project Team will provide a 20 minute overview of the requirements and will welcome questions from Prospective Bidders who have registered to join the call.

Organisations wishing to join the conference call should e-mail paddy.howlin@nhs.net, confirming the following: - Name of organisation - Name of nominated representatives (a maximum of 2 per organisation are permitted to join) - E-mail addresses of nominated representatives - Provide any questions in advance for the Project Team to answer in the Q&A session following the presentation Registrations to join the call must be received by no later than 12:00, Tuesday 6th December 2016.

Once registered, dial in details for the conference call will be issued by no later than Wednesday 7th December.

UPDATE: 8TH DECEMBER 2016: SLIDES PRESENTED AT THE ABOVE EVENT CAN BE FOUND IN THE ATTACHMENTS SECTION BELOW.