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Healthy homes services to reduce household crowding in families with children at risk of rheumatic fever in the Bay of Plenty DHB area
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| RFx ID : | 2259427 |
| Tender Name : | Healthy homes services to reduce household crowding in families with children at risk of rheumatic fever in the Bay of Plenty DHB area |
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| Open Date : | Friday, 1 August 2014 11:00 AM (Pacific/Auckland UTC+12:00) |
| Close Date : | Wednesday, 10 September 2014 12:00 PM (Pacific/Auckland UTC+12:00) |
| Tender Type : | Request for Proposals (RFP) |
| Tender Coverage : | Sole Agency [?] |
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| Exemption Reason : | None |
| Required Pre-qualifications : | None |
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Amanda Grant amanda_grant@moh.govt.nz 04 816 3605 |
| Alternate Physical Delivery Address : | PO Box 5013, Wellington 6145 |
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1. Reducing rates of Rheumatic Fever (RF) is one of the Government’s Better Public Services (BPS) targets, to decrease incidence of RF by two-thirds to 1.4 cases per 100,000 by 2017.
2. There is a strong link between housing conditions, particularly household crowding, and RF. Living in crowded housing conditions increases the transmission rates of a range of infectious diseases including Group A Streptococcal (GAS) throat infections, the necessary precursor to RF. This is in relation to both the size of the house compared to the number of people living in it (structural crowding), and ensuring not too many people crowd into a single room to sleep, due to an inability to provide a warm, dry house (functional crowding).
3. Currently the Annual Planning Toolkit for FY 2013/14 requires each high-incidence DHB to develop and implement a Rheumatic Fever Prevention Plan. This includes developing systems to identify families with children at high risk of RF living in crowded housing, and appropriately refer each case to local housing and/or social services for follow up and intervention.
4. The Auckland-wide Healthy Homes Initiative (AWHI) service is a new service funded through the RFPP and has been operational since December 2013. AWHI’s key focus is on reducing functional and structural household crowding in families with children at high risk of RF in the Auckland-metro area.
5. In May 2014, the Government announced additional funding to expand the RFPP. One new commitment was to implement further initiatives to reduce household crowding. Of this, $1 million per annum for two years will be directed through high incidence DHBs to purchase services to develop healthy homes initiatives. The initiatives will focus on reducing household crowding in families with children at risk of RF, building on the services currently operating in the DHB areas.
6. The overall objective is to reduce household crowding in families with children at risk of RF, by designing and implementing a healthy homes service in each DHB. The Ministry is seeking to fund a service system or components of a service system, which builds on existing initiatives. The exact contract deliverables for each DHB area will be determined following the RFP process.
This tender has been awarded to:
- Bay of Plenty & Hawkes Bay DHB's (joint funsing)
Award Date: Monday, 13 April 2015 (Pacific/Auckland UTC+12:00)
Date RFx was completed/updated: Wednesday, 10 September 2014 2:17 PM (Pacific/Auckland UTC+12:00)
