Purpose

To consider in-house or external provision
of:

• 0-19 Health Visiting and school nursing service
• NISHH-Northamptonshire Integrated Sexual Health Service and
HIV service
• Strong Start Service
• REACH Young People’s Counselling Service
• Oral Health Service

Content

RESOLVED
 
KEY DECISION
 

That
the Executive:

 

i)  Approved a procurement process for
the following services as set out in the report:

 

·       
The 0-19 Health Visiting and School
Nursing Service

·       
Strong Start Service

·       
Northamptonshire Integrated Sexual Health
Service and HIV Service (NISHH)

·       
Youth Counselling Offer
(REACH)

·       
Oral Health Promotion Service
and

·       
Dental Epidemiology
Survey

 

ii)    Granted delegated authority to the
Executive Member for Adults, Health, and Wellbeing to determine the
model of delivery on a contract-by-contract
basis.

 
 
Reasons for Recommendations: Approval will ensure an open and
robust process as to whether each contract should be provided
internally or externally commissioned, and new services are in
place by 1st April 2025.

 
Alternative Options Considered:  A report was taken to shared
services joint committee on 17th January 2024, exploring
to either continuing  jointly or
independently recommission the CYP and sexual health services, it
was approved by both NNC and WNC executive members that these
services should be disaggregated  now
from the joint arrangement and separately recommissioning these
in order to fit the needs of local
population.  However, commissioners have
now drafted a further option paper to engage with elected members
around the option for internal vs external
recommissioning.