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WMCPC Eating Disorder Services_Phase2 - Market Engagement
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2025-07-23
Description
Lot 1: Eating Disorder Day Care Services for children and young people within the West Midlands (aged 13-18). The service and provider will need to be registered with the Care Quality Commission to provide mental health services. The service aims are to: • Provide specialist eating disorder interventions on a day care basis as an alternative, sustainable model to inpatient care. • Provide step up from community services with or without intensive support at home. • Provide an alternative, sustainable model to inpatient care for young people with eating disorders. • Reduce inpatient admissions to a Specialist Eating Disorder Units (SEDU) • Reduce lengths of stay for those already admitted. • Support young people to receive timely and effective care in the least restrictive environment. • Provide a treatment option that is a clinically appropriate alternative to an inpatient admission who require a more structured approach to interventions than the community offer provides. • Enable treatment maintaining the stability of the young person’s home, social and educational environment. • Provide a range of evidence-based therapeutic interventions to support the young person’s recovery with specific psychological therapies. • Deliver daycare program which meets the specific therapeutic needs of patients. • Provide a family-centered approach to equip parents with the necessary skills and understanding of the young person’s diagnosis to enable them to support effectively in the home environment • Meet NICE Guideline (NG69) compliance, which recommends most people with eating disorders are treated on an outpatient basis with evidence-based 2 therapies such as Eating Disorder Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT-ED). The proposed service model should cover the following minimum requirements: • Service model should focus on highly structured programme of day care provision, with a range of evidence based therapeutic treatment approaches, supplemented with educational support to maintain a structured environment for the young person • Interventions should be tailored to meet young person’s needs at time of assessment as well as support to family/carer. • Service should be operational seven days per week 8am-8pm. • Service should be committed to principles of least restrictive practice • Service should have capacity to provide day service places up to 8 young people at any one time. Lot 2: Eating Disorder Intensive Home Support provision for children and young people within the West Midlands (aged 13-18) who require intensive mental health treatment to support discharge and step down from hospital. The service and provider will need to be registered with the Care Quality Commission to provide mental health services. The service aims are to: • Provide time-limited intensive person-centered intervention within the young person’s home environment to avoid unnecessary admission • Support timely discharge from acute paediatric wards and offer intensive support as an alternative to continued inpatient treatment. • Support young people to receive timely and effective care in the least restrictive environment. • To provide a range of therapeutic interventions to support children/young people’s recovery. • To provide information to the young person and their families and provide interventions that are tailored to their age and level of development. • Be NICE Guideline (NG69) compliant, which recommends most people with eating disorders are treated on an outpatient basis with evidence-2 based therapies such as Eating Disorder Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT-ED) and family-based treatment. The proposed service model should cover the following minimum requirements (these may be subject to amendment due to concurrent development work): • Service should focus on intensive support within the young person’s home environment, with a range of therapeutic, evidence based treatment approaches deployed • Interventions should be tailored to meet individual young person’s and their family’s needs at time of assessment • Service should be operational seven days per week and provide support as appropriate into the young person’s home and/or school setting, with the accepted young people having intervention(s) up to four times daily (as determined appropriate at time of assessment and formulated within their care plan • Most interventions from the ED-ISH should aim for around 14 weeks of input, though length of time input required should be based on clinical need • The ED-ISH should provide a highly structured programme of intensive support that combines education, therapy and support with meal times and meal planning. • ED-ISH should also consider support to parents/carers and families of the young person, which may be undertaken separately to the intervention with the young person. • The service should have capacity to provide intensive input up to four times daily for at least 14 weeks to between 5 and 8 young people at one time.
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