Integrated Healthcare Services to HMP Ford, HMP Lewes, and HMP/YOI Winchester

NHS England South East (NHSE) (the Commissioners) are seeking to recommission prime-provider led integrated healthcare services for HMP Ford and HMP Lewes (Lot 1).

Interested providers should have the capacity and capability to provide an outcome focused, integrated and patient centred primary healthcare service, equivalent to that available to the local community, delivering physical health, mental health, substance misuse and dental services.

NHSE will hold a contract with the prime provider, who in turn can directly provide care and/or subcontract care to other specialist providers.

HMP Ford is situated near Arundel in West Sussex. It is a category D open male prison, focused on the resettlement of prisoners, with an operational capacity of 389.

HMP Lewes is situated in Lewes, East Sussex. It is a category B local remand and resettlement prison for young offenders and adult males remanded or sentenced to 12 months or less. It has an operational capacity of 623.

The services will be commissioned as part of the overall Offender Health pathway within the prisons and as such this model will ensure an integrated, recovery orientated service delivery system both within the prisons and onwards into the community. The service will focus on delivering person-centred care within seamless, integrated structured clinical and psychosocial interventions/services in prison and facilitating arrangements through the gate into the community to ensure effective continuity of care.

The services included in the contracts include (please refer to the service specification(s) for a full list of the services):

• General Practitioners Provision
• Primary Care Nursing (including long term conditions)
• Dental Services
• Pharmacy Services (including mechanism for Out of Hours provision)
• Inpatient Unit facility at HMP Lewes
• Substance Misuse Services (including Substance Misuse wing at HMP Lewes)
• Optometry
• Podiatry
• Audiology
• Primary and Secondary Mental Health and Learning Disability Services
• Health Promotion and Prevention
• Musculoskeletal therapies
• Smoking cessation
• Blood Born Viruses testing to include funding, access and delivery (including provision of testing facilities where necessary).
• Consultant-led Pain management clinic(s)
• Therapies
• Sexual Health screening - Tiers (1, 2)
• Escort and Bedwatch Services (via a risk share agreement)
• Appropriate administrative and data management support (including data intelligence and reporting resource; data and intelligence analysis)

In addition, the provider will be responsible for ensuring effective and meaningful pathways of care are established with secondary care / community based specialist health provision, including hospital based services, to meet patient's health needs.

The Contract is due to commence on the 1st April 2027 for a term of 7 years.

The maximum total contract value is £54,663,063.

TUPE is likely to apply.

NHS England South East (NHSE) (the Commissioners) are seeking to recommission prime-provider led integrated healthcare services for HMP/YOI Winchester (Lot 2).

Interested providers should have the capacity and capability to provide an outcome focused, integrated and patient centred primary healthcare service, equivalent to that available to the local community, delivering physical health, mental health, substance misuse and dental services.

NHSE will hold a contract with the prime provider, who in turn can directly provide care and/or subcontract care to other specialist providers.

HMP/YOI Winchester is located in Winchester, Hampshire. It is a category B local prison that serves the local courts, with a small category C resettlement unit (West Hill). The prison houses sentenced and remand young offender and adult males and has an operational capacity of 678.

The services will be commissioned as part of the overall Offender Health pathway within the prisons and as such this model will ensure an integrated, recovery orientated service delivery system both within the prisons and onwards into the community. The service will focus on delivering person-centred care within seamless, integrated structured clinical and psychosocial interventions/services in prison and facilitating arrangements through the gate into the community to ensure effective continuity of care.

The services included in the contracts include (please refer to the service specification(s) for a full list of the services):

• General Practitioners Provision
• Primary Care Nursing (including long term conditions)
• Dental Services
• Pharmacy Services (including mechanism for Out of Hours provision)
• Inpatient Unit facility
• Substance Misuse Services (including Substance Misuse wing)
• Optometry
• Podiatry
• Audiology
• Primary and Secondary Mental Health and Learning Disability Services
• Health Promotion and Prevention
• Musculoskeletal therapies
• Smoking cessation
• Blood Born Viruses testing to include funding, access and delivery (including provision of testing facilities where necessary).
• Consultant-led Pain management clinic(s)
• Therapies
• Sexual Health screening - Tiers (1, 2)
• Social Care provision - via a Section 75 agreement with the Local Authority
• Escort and Bedwatch Services (via a risk share agreement)
• Appropriate administrative and data management support (including data intelligence and reporting resource; data and intelligence analysis)

In addition, the provider will be responsible for ensuring effective and meaningful pathways of care are established with secondary care / community based specialist health provision, including hospital based services, to meet patient's health needs.

The Contract is due to commence on the 1st April 2027 for a term of 7 years.

The maximum total contract value is £49,994,000.

TUPE is likely to apply.