“My Best Life” Invitation to Tender for Social Prescribing Liaison Service for Barnsley Procurement Event for Potential Providers 9.15am – 12 noon 13 July 2016 Shaw Suite, Shaw Lane Rugby Club, Barnsley, Barnsley, S70 6HZ, UK Social prescribing is a mechanism for linking patients with non-medical sources of support within the community.

It provides health care professionals with a non-medical referral option that can operate alongside existing treatments to improve health and wellbeing and enable a more holistic approach.

It recognises the importance of psychosocial, environmental and economic factors in health and wellbeing and health inequalities.

NHS Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group will be issuing an invitation for tenders for a new Social Prescribing service on the 11th July 2016.

Tender documents will be available via https://www.nhssourcing.co.uk/web/login.html The new service will provide a borough wide liaison service to support patients and social care clients to access non-medical sources of support in the community and be branded “My Best Life”.

We would like to invite any stakeholders interested in applying for this tender to a workshop event on the 13th July.

Please confirm your attendance, with details of names and job titles of attendees to Gemma Grant no later than the 8th July.

E- mail : gemma.grant3@nhs.net (01226 433754).

Maximum number of attendees from each organisation is limited to 3.

Note: Potential providers will need to demonstrate in their tender that they have recent experience of working with communities and organisations within Barnsley and that they can provide the service within the financial envelop given in the ITT documentation.

Programme 9.15am – 12 noon 13 July 2016 Shaw Suite, Shaw Lane Rugby Club, Barnsley, Barnsley, S70 6HZ, UK 9.15 am Registration, tea and coffee 9.30 am Welcome and Introduction to Social Prescribing in Barnsley Dr Lisa Wilkins, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, NHS Barnsley CCG 9.40 am The Service Specification Katie Roebuck, Lead Commissioning and Transformation Manager, NHS Barnsley CCG 10.10 am The Procurement Process Hilary Porter, Interim Head of Procurement 10.30 am Questions and Answers 12 pm Close