Tender: Unplanned Rapid Response Night Sitting Service – Norfolk Out-of-Hours Adult Care

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The Rapid Response Service in Norfolk is seeking a supplier for unplanned rapid response night sitting to provide timely, short-term, multi-disciplinary out-of-hours support for adults aged 18 and over during evenings, nights, weekends and bank holidays. The service delivers urgent assessment, intervention and coordination of care across Norfolk to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, facilitate early discharge and help people remain safely and independently in their own homes or usual place of residence, working closely with primary care, urgent and emergency care, ambulance services, acute trusts, adult social care, mental health services and the voluntary sector. The tender notes the contract value is not sufficient to be commercially viable if lotted and may increase contract management costs, and it also states the contract may be transferred, assigned or novated to successor authority(ies), joint bodies or a Mayoral Strategic Authority for Norfolk should local government reorganisation proceed.