The Department of Health are intending to introduce a new
standard contract for community and mental health services by April
2009, including those services delivered by Third Sector
providers.
NAVCA's Local
Commissioning and Procurement Unit is meeting with the
Department of Health to establish channels of communication for the
sector. However, it is important that those organisations who
receive funding from their Primary Care Trust are aware of the
draft contract and the implementation events that are being held
regionally throughout November and January.
Download a draft version of the standard community
contract
Further information is available on the DoH
Development of new NHS contracts web pages.
Feedback and enquiries should be directed to the
Contract Development Team on 020 7210 4947 or Project Lead, Tracy
Cannell at
tracy.cannell.dh.gsi.gov.uk
Implementation events
Information and bookings for implementation events.
Further events are expected to occur during January, but
dates have yet to be
published.