Expired contract

NIPE Credits

Details

Value
£24,000
Duration
1 year
Published
9 October 2023

Tender description

15 students, £750 per student. Delivery of 20 credit module (or as part of a framework) available at both level 6 and 7 for Physical assessment of the new-born (NIPE) or equivalent. Which allows registered midwives and neonatal nurses to undertake routine physical examination of the newborn. Learning outcomes (similar or equal to): 1. Understand and appraise the principles of screening and physical assessment standards applied to the Newborn 2. Understand and demonstrate an informed understanding of the newborn parameters of health and wellbeing 3. Demonstrate competence to perform the Newborn and Infant Physical Examination (NIPE) screening and examination of the newborn 4. Able to critically appraise evidence and research, and draw conclusions of its usefulness to inform newborn examination and care practice 5. Evaluate your professional role, and personal responsibility when assuming the remit as a NIPE practitioner We estimate approx. 12-15 staff to complete per annum and would like this contract to last 24 months. Face to face requirement.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published9 October 2023
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date12 October 2023
  3. Completed: Contract expiry date12 October 2024

About the buyer

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust runs hospital and community services in Northumberland and North Tyneside as an NHS trust with its own procurement team. Tenders are advertised on the Due North portal, the trust's website and Contracts Finder. Smaller purchases go out as written quotes. Larger contracts follow a full tender process. A panel of staff and service users scores each tender against published criteria. Health and social care contracts can qualify for a lighter procurement regime with no EU advertising duty.

UK health spending has nearly quadrupled to £241.8bn in 2024/25, £20bn up on the year before. £140.6bn of that went to procurement, the biggest sector of UK public spending and the fastest-growing.

Over the past 5 years, most of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust's contract awards have been in medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, software and information systems and health and social work.

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