NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB), hereafter the Relevant Authority, is seeking to commission Wheelchair and Postural Services for North Yorkshire and York through a Competitive Process under The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. The preferred Provider 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.