Awarded contract

Winter Pressure Funding

Details

Value
£2,232,822
Topic
Psychiatric hospital services
Published
14 September 2026

Tender description

Toucan have identified a need to support CYP Mental Health Winter Pressures. This is specifically related to strengthening the support and management of CYP presenting in Emergency Departments and Acute pathways and needs to align to the following outcomes: 1. Reduce Avoidable Mental Health attendances to emergency departments (EDs); 2. Support rapid and safe discharge from A&E (i.e. avoid 4hr / 12hr breaches); 3. Reduce avoidable emergency admissions to general acute hospitals or mental health hospitals; 4. Facilitate earlier discharge from general or T4 mental health hospitals Lot 1: Services provided are to meet the following outcomes: 1. Reduce Avoidable Mental Health attendances to emergency departments (EDs); 2. Support rapid and safe discharge from A&E (i.e. avoid 4hr / 12hr breaches); 3. Reduce avoidable emergency admissions to general acute hospitals or mental health hospitals; 4. Facilitate earlier discharge from general or T4 mental health hospitals Due to the urgent pressures within Emergency Departments these contracts have been awarded under the urgent award route of PSR. The lifetime value of the contracts is £2,231,922 and the contracts run from 1st October 2026 until 31st March 2027.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date8 September 2026
  2. Completed: Award published14 September 2026
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About the buyer

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist NHS foundation trust running women's and children's hospital services in Birmingham. Purchasing and supplies maintains its own lists of approved suppliers for goods and services. An annual Excellence in Supply Awards scheme recognises suppliers across the Midlands.

Over the past 5 years, most of Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust's contract awards have been in medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, business services and health and social work.

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