Childhood Immunisations
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The NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board has awarded a contract for the "Childhood Immunisations" project, focusing on medical practice and related services. This initiative, located in the London boroughs of Haringey and Islington, seeks to address the low uptake of childhood immunisations via community education, pop-up clinics, and targeted communication strategies. This project builds on existing health inequalities work within the Camden area and is under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023, employing a direct award process without prior competition.
The contract, valued at £48,714, has a duration of one year from 1st April 2025 to 31st March 2026. This tender presents substantial growth opportunities, particularly for businesses involved in healthcare services, community engagement, and public health campaigning. Firms adept in providing multi-lingual educational materials and grassroots community training can significantly contribute and stand out in this sector.
With its focus on addressing health inequalities and reaching underserved communities, businesses that can demonstrate value for money, innovation, and social value, particularly those compliant with the London Living Wage, are well-suited to partner with public health initiatives such as this. This contract demonstrates a clear demand for collaborative approaches to healthcare services, ideal for SMEs like Healthwatch Islington, which has been involved in similar efforts.
Childhood Immunisations / Building on learning from the existing Camden childhood vaccinations health inequalities project, the programme intends to address low uptakes of childhood immunisations via 3 work-streams:
Offering training to and education to parent champions and community leaders: Providing community leaders and parent champions with access to education on immunisation and hesitancy. Challenges include language, culture, and confidence; the programme will seek to build a relationship with communities by listening and identifying the barriers to immunisation, jointly address them, building confidence in health services and of immunisation.
Pop up clinics: Provision of pop-up site vaccination clinics in children and community centres in Islington's most deprived wards (dependent on the phase 2 vaccination schedule)
Communications & patient engagement: Ensure that communications and patient information materials are in the relevant language to encourage informed consent
The notice relates to Childhood Immunisations / Building on learning from the existing Camden childhood vaccinations health inequalities project, the programme intends to address low uptakes of childhood immunisations via 3 work-streams:<br/>Offering training to and education to parent champions and community leaders: Providing community leaders and parent champions with access to education on immunisation and hesitancy. Challenges include language, culture, and confidence; the programme will seek to build a relationship with communities by listening and identifying the barriers to immunisation, jointly address them, building confidence in health services and of immunisation.<br/>Pop up clinics: Provision of pop-up site vaccination clinics in children and community centres in Islington's most deprived wards (dependent on the phase 2 vaccination schedule)<br/>Communications & patient engagement: Ensure that communications and patient information materials are in the relevant language to encourage informed consentChildhood Immunisations / Building on learning from the existing Camden childhood vaccinations health inequalities project, the programme intends to address low uptakes of childhood immunisations via 3 work-streams:<br/>Offering training to and education to parent champions and community leaders: Providing community leaders and parent champions with access to education on immunisation and hesitancy. Challenges include language, culture, and confidence; the programme will seek to build a relationship with communities by listening and identifying the barriers to immunisation, jointly address them, building confidence in health services and of immunisation.<br/>Pop up clinics: Provision of pop-up site vaccination clinics in children and community centres in Islington's most deprived wards (dependent on the phase 2 vaccination schedule)<br/>Communications & patient engagement: Ensure that communications and patient information materials are in the relevant language to encourage informed consent<br/>This notice is an intention to award a contract to the existing provider following direct award process C.<br/>The lifetime value of the contract is PS48,714. <br/>The expiring contract ends 31/03/2025.<br/>The contract term will be 1 year with no option to extend.<br/>The contract will start on 01/04/2025 and end 31/03/2026.
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