# Night Sitting Service \(Palliative Care\)

> Tender notice from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust](/buyers/southern-health-nhs-foundation-trust/contract-awards)
- Tender value: £200,000
- Published: 20 September 2017
- Planned start: 1 December 2017
- Planned end: 30 November 2020
- Stage: open_tender
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: b75ebfdb-722b-4160-b4fb-07783ca03e67-171632
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-90e289bd-debc-43e2-adc8-c7d6876e88f3

## Description

The Night Sitting Service is to deliver an End of Life Care i\.e\. health and social care for individuals who are approaching death\. The service helps individuals to live as well as possible until they die, and to die with dignity\. This service also includes support for their family and/or carers\. End of life care includes palliative care\. For the purpose of this specification care for "End of Life Stage of illness" is care that helps all those with advanced, progressive, incurable illnesses to live as well as possible until they die\. It enables the supportive and palliative care needs of both patient and family to be identified and met throughout the last phase of life and into bereavement\. It includes management of pain and other symptoms and provision of psychological, social, spiritual and practical support\. This service is delivered only between 22:00 to 0700\. The specification describes the service in more detail\. Additional information: Please register on our e-procurement portal to access the Night Sitting Service tender documents attached for this procurement opportunity via our Bravo e-procurement portal: https://commercialsolutions\.bravosolution\.co\.uk

## Related contract awards

- [SH0996 Community Electronic Prescribing](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-7fdad0b7-69e0-477b-be0f-65909ffdc6e7): Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
- [Locum Direct Engagement and Management and Supply of Temporary Medical Workforce - Contract Award Notice](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-66ea43e3-34c2-4f85-b0fa-c5c9e96a6590): Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
- [SH817a IPS Service](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-9a8763e6-edc9-4bb0-af39-411195c1985c): Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b75ebfdb-722b-4160-b4fb-07783ca03e67-171632)