Provision of an Inpatient and Outpatient Mental Health Service

Inpatient service

The Authority has a requirement for the provision of high quality occupationally focused care for SP and entitled civilians deemed to require inpatient assessment, stabilisation and treatment. The Contractor will provide a nominated bed within 4 hours of a request as close as possible to the patient’s Department of Community Mental Health or where clinically indicated their home. Refer Annex A of attached draft Statement of Requirement for delivery locations.

An initial admission would be for up to 10 days, with further bed days being requested as clinically appropriate. The 10 day stay/admission is for stabilisation and treatment of personnel and management of risk with the individual then being discharged back to the care of the General Practitioner (GP), Medical Officer (MO) and DCMH. For eligible civilians, the admission would be for 10 days only, and any care required after the initial 10 days will be the responsibility of the NHS, arranged by the provider.

Outpatient service

To support community mental healthcare, Defence also contracts an Outpatient Psychotherapy Service (OPS) delivered via remote video consultation of a rolling 120 psychotherapy referral sessions per annum.

OPS will comprise of evidence based psychologically informed interventions for a range of presentations (as listed in SOR), which will be up to and including stepped care levels 3/4a in complexity.

Online CBT

Access to digital CBT for common mental disorders (incorporating but not limited to the core provision of CBTi for Anxiety and CBTi for Depression) for a 12-month period for up to 5,000 users per annum (UK and overseas) Additional information: As part of the Tender process, the Authority shall visit the Tenderer's premises (at time to be agreed between the Authority and the Tenderer) for the purposes of assessment/evaluation of the facilities. If this is not possible then a live virtual tour shall be required.