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03 July 2009:
A winning bid for Cygnet Health Care Limited!
Cygnet Health Care Limited has been awarded a three year contract with Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust for the provision of Psychiatric Intensive Care and acute services for both male and female patients.
Following the redesign of inpatient service user care Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust has undergone an overall reduction in intensive care beds and the introduction of a male only ICU means the Trust will purchase female intensive care services from external providers. As well as ad-hoc provision for male intensive care and both male and female acute services.
For seven months Cygnet Health Care Limited has been battling it out against its competitors in the hope of becoming the approved provider of psychiatric intensive care and acute services for Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. Following a detailed tender process Cygnet is pleased to announce that it has been selected as the successful provider for a minimum of three years, achieving the highest score for both service and cost when marked against the award criteria.
Cygnet Health Care is contracted to provide a guaranteed female PICU bed, with the potential of being commissioned, for the provision of up to an additional three female PICU beds at Cygnet Hospital Beckton. Cygnet has been recognised for its ability to acknowledge and understand the vulnerability of women using mental health services and being able to provide gender sensitive care, which provides a safe and specialised response to women who are at their most vulnerable.
In addition Cygnet can also be commissioned to provide, on an ad-hoc basis, up to four male PICU beds at Cygnet Wing Blackheath and up to four male acute and the occasional female acute bed at Cygnet Hospital Harrow.
Cygnet Health Care will deliver a robust clinical and cost effective service provision that offers flexibility and strengthens continuity of care. Cygnet will link with the Trust’s wider strategies, including the Women’s Care Pathway, to support its recognition of the vulnerability of service users accessing their services and to enable them to provide a continuous care pathway that is accessible, flexible and recovery focussed towards vulnerable service user groups.
With significant focus on establishing partnerships with service users through a wide range of service user involvement initiatives, Cygnet is looking forward to working with Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust to develop effective mental health care arrangements, with joint working protocol and a shared commitment to providing the best care for service users.