Community Pharmacy Technician Training and Development Pilot Programme 2017/18 - Health Education England - SoEPS/16.315

NHS South of England Procurement Services, acting on behalf of Health Education England (HEE - the Commissioner) are commencing a tender for the delivery of a Community Pharmacy Technician Training and Development Pilot Programme 2017/18.

HEE, in partnership with NHS England, is seeking to engage providers to deliver a training and development pilot programme focused on community pharmacy technicians working in community pharmacy practice.

The pilot programme will provide: • Training and development opportunities for a minimum of 25 pharmacy technicians, across a variety of 25 workplaces (community pharmacies), to develop their professional, management, and leadership roles within community pharmacy. • Organisational, team and workforce development support for community pharmacies. • A research and evaluation component embedded within the programme to provide a formal report with a set of evidenced recommendations for future work.

Bids will be welcomed from individual providers or a consortium of providers, based on a prime provider model with rollout/recruitment expected to commence from January 2018.

This contract has a maximum length of 1 year and a maximum value of £325,000 inclusive, to cover all elements of the programme delivery.

These figures include VAT.

Please access the procurement documents for further information.

Bidders are invited to access the procurement documentation at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning.

The deadline for submission of completed ITT submissions is Wednesday 11th October 2017 at 12:00pm (midday).

Late submissions will not be accepted.

The e-portal system will shutdown at 12:00pm and any unsubmitted bids not registered to the system at this time will not be accepted.

Therefore, please submit in good time prior to the deadline date and time.

Project title: Community Pharmacy Technician Training and Development Pilot Programme 2017/18 - Health Education England, please access the ITT for all documents.

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