Clinical database Childrens HIV and Aids Reporting System (CHARS)
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NHS England has completed the procurement process for the "Clinical database Children's HIV and Aids Reporting System (CHARS)" under the health services category. This tender was awarded to University College London (UCL) on 16th June 2025, with the contract period set from 1st October 2024 to 31st March 2026. The value of the awarded contract is £135,418.27.
The procurement was carried out via an unspecified method and was suitable for SMEs and VCSEs. This initiative supports surveillance and service quality monitoring for paediatric HIV in England, operating primarily out of Leeds. This procurement presents significant opportunities for businesses specializing in health services, particularly those focused on creating, managing, and analysing specialised clinical databases.
SMEs and organisations that have experience in public health surveillance or clinical data management could find substantial growth opportunities in such projects. Firms with the capability to support public health commissioning services and improve healthcare quality metrics would be particularly well-suited for similar future tenders.
Clinical databases are important to specialised service commissioning because population is a requirement of specialised providers (via clinical service specifications) and, in some cases, the clinical databases / registries hold clinical details not located in other information systems, aiding identification of specialised service activity. The Children's HIV and AIDS Reporting System collects and processes long term follow-up paediatric HIV data for all children living with HIV in England until transition to adult care. The purpose of CHARS is:
- To provide data for public health surveillance of HIV infections among children living with HIV
- To monitor the quality of care of children living with HIV until transition to adult services, including producing quality of care indicators
- To support NHS commissioning services CHARS launched in 2022 and continues paediatric surveillance carried out by the Collaborative HIV Paediatric Study (CHIPS) based at UCL Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit which ran from 2000- 2020, significantly improving the surveillance service in multiple ways.
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The contract period is one year.
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