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Decision Maker: Director for Police, Crime, Criminal Justice and Fire, GM Deputy Mayor, Treasurer GMCA
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
This service is designed to support the police
to navigate the health and social care system in cases which
involve conveyance to hospital, liaison with community mental
health teams, and in particular when they are considering detention
under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983.
The service provides Mental Health Practitioners who are based in
the GMP Force Contact Centre (Vulnerability Support Unit) at the
Greater Manchester Police Force Headquarters.
The contract is a joint agreement between GMP and NHS
England.
A direct award is appropriate under regulation 12 (7) of the Public
Contracts Regulations 2015 relating to the award of contracts which
establish or implement co-operation between contracting
authorities
The Deputy Mayor approves the direct award of
a 1 year contract for a contract for Mental Health Tactical Advice
services, to Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
The likely value of 1 year spend for GMP would be circa
£483K.
It is into appropriate to tender this service
as it is distinct from locality-level ‘street triage’
in a number of ways:
i. It is integrated completely into the GMP FCC, and is a fully
embedded part of the police vulnerability support unit.
ii. Its entire remit is to support officers, meaning that staff are
always available to support the police (whereas street triage
abstracts staff from mental health teams undertaking core duties
who are often unavailable).
iii. It a GM-wide service with representation from the GMMHT
working across the GM footprint, and is the only service with
access to public sector mental health records for every service
user in GM
Publication date: 20/05/2022
Date of decision: 19/04/2022