Discharge to Assess and Admission Avoidance Bed-based Service.

The Royal Borough of Greenwich are intending to commission a single provider Contract for the provision of Adult Social Care Discharge to Assess and Step Up and Step Down Services. Potential providers are encouraged to participate in a market engagement event. The procurement process is intended to be run in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023, Light Touch Regime (LTR) above-threshold. The Service will operate from Eltham Community Hospital and will provide up to 20 beds, flexibly allocated across both pathways to support hospital discharge, admission avoidance, and short-term recovery and non-intensive rehabilitation to enable recovery and regain independence. Multidisciplinary working is key to the model, and the provider will be expected to work in partnership with system stakeholders. The service will operate on a block purchase basis and will include personal care, including nursing and medication support administered by registered nurses and care professionals care with the goal to enable service users to regain or achieve maximum independence and quality of life as soon as possible following a period of ill health. We are looking for providers with experience, skills and capability to deliver a strength-based enabling service, able to maximise people's recovery and independence during the short stay in the unit. The duration of the contract is anticipated to be 5 years, with the potential to extend for up to a maximum period/s of 2 further years