Wheelchair and Postural Services - North Yorkshire and York

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.