# Service to Reduce Loneliness in Worcestershire

> Tender notice from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Worcestershire County Council](/buyers/worcestershire-county-council/contract-awards)
- Published: 8 October 2019
- Planned start: 1 April 2020
- Planned end: 31 March 2023
- Stage: open_tender
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: be82f27d-05e2-48db-bef5-e1fccf287ae5-318421
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-3f59e88d-3726-45c7-8eb4-18d430587a27

## Description

Worcestershire County Council is commissioning a new public health service jointly funded by Worcestershire CCG for the next three years as part of a new overarching strategy to reduce loneliness for adults living in Worcestershire\. The Council has included reducing loneliness as a contributory factor to Health and Wellbeing Board priorities since 2015\. This included delivery of a specific service to reduce loneliness using a process of matching volunteers to chronically lonely individuals by developing a personalised approach to improve their outcomes\. There is existing evidence of the effectiveness of this current service provision for people aged over 50 years who are lonely, in addition to contributing cost savings to primary and secondary care\. The intention going forward is to commission a lead Provider to expand the reach of the current model to target all adults aged over 18 living in Worcestershire reaching the threshold for an intervention and requesting support to reduce loneliness\. It is acknowledged that the new service needs to work as part of a wider Integrated Wellbeing Offer with social prescribing, lifestyles services and professionals in neighbourhood teams and primary care networks to ensure effective referral routes and signposting to the wider system of health and social care\. In addition, the new service will operate in a rapidly changing health and care system locally, so will need to be flexible in adapting to these opportunities in delivering efficiencies and improvements\. Additional information: Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

## Related contract awards

- [WCC 2026 2696 Pre Wet Salt Saturator Maintenance](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-e7070df7-255d-40c3-b988-f5948cf37f67): Worcestershire County Council
- [PL0314 WHLG Contract Administrator and QS Support](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-c0e48578-17c7-4540-a683-01cbeebf32fe): Worcestershire County Council
- [BSIP Civil Engineering Project Manager for Bus Stop Infrastructure\.](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-7da5dd8b-2741-4fe2-ba09-28bb3f105bb5): Worcestershire County Council

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/be82f27d-05e2-48db-bef5-e1fccf287ae5-318421)