North London Mental Health Partnership (NLMHP) has shared plans to procure a digital local risk management and incident reporting system, with interested suppliers requested to complete a questionnaire by 18 September.
Contextually, the notice highlights how the partnership currently sees Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust are currently together through the model, with plans to form a new single organisation subject to national approval from November 2024.
Through the questionnaire, NLMHP will assess capability, capacity and experience of potential suppliers using pass/fail criteria, with successful suppliers to be invited to participate in the second stage of the procurement with full tenders to be submitted.
The contract for the digital system is expected to run from September 2025 to August 2030; please click here to access the relevant documents in full.
Digital mental health: in focus
Earlier in September, HTN reported how Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust shared a prior information notice signalling intention to create a framework for the provision of online and digital mental health assessments, treatments and therapies across the region, with an estimated value of up to £35 million.
August saw us share the news that the NHS 111 service expanded to include a 24/7 “full package” of mental health crisis support; that a chatbot function was launched on the NHS Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull Talking Therapies website, designed to help process referrals to the service; and patient engagement platform DrDoctor announced the acquisition of Maia from Mindwave Ventures, a personal health record platform custom built for mental health care.
Earlier in the summer HTN hosted a webinar exploring good practice around implementing digital healthcare solutions.
In May we examined research on the attitudes and experiences of current and potential users of digital mental health technology.
Also from London
Recent news from the capital includes preventative health tech company Neko Health launching in London with the opening of a Health Centre offering the ‘Neko Body Scan’, described as a “preventative health check for the future self” mapping millions of external and internal health data points on the body.
And DigitalHealth.London announced the latest cohort for its accelerator programme, with with 17 SMEs selected to develop digital solutions or services deemed to have the “highest potential to meet London’s NHS and social care challenges” in areas including AI, remote monitoring and mental health.
