NSW Health / Health Technology Assessment of a proposal to establish the Norwood procedure and surgical palliation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome as a Nationally Funded Centre. - DOH 08/35

RFT ID DOH 08/35

RFT Type Open Tenders

Published 13-Dec-2008

Closes 27-Jan-2009 10:00am

Category Comprehensive health services

Agency HealthShare NSW

Contact Person

Ms Kathy Meleady , Director Statewide Services Development Branch, NSW Health
Phone: 02 9391 9476
Kathy.Meleady@doh.health.nsw.gov.au

Tender Details

The Nationally Funded Centres (NFC) program supports the introduction of high cost, highly specialised clinical practices and technologies with limited demand, to ensure equitable access to these practices and technologies for all Australians.

The NFC program is overseen by the NFC Reference Group. The consultant will be engaged by the NFC Reference Group to undertake a health technology asessment of the Norwood procedure and surgical palliation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome, and provide recommendations as to whether it is appropriate for NFC status. The recommendations will be made against the established NFC criteria.

Location

NSW Regions: Central West, Far West, Hunter, Illawarra, Mid North Coast, Murray, Murrumbidgee, Northern, North Western, Richmond Tweed, South Eastern, Sydney

RFT Type

Open Tenders - An invitation to tender by public advertisement with no restriction placed on who may tender. Tenderers will normally be required to demonstrate in their tender that they have the necessary skills, resources, experience, financial capacity, and in some cases licences, accreditations, etc., to fulfil the tender requirements.

RFT Preview Document(s)

Norwood Australian Ad final.pdf (113 KB)

Additional Details / Instructions

The review will be overseen by a Project Management Group, a sub-committee of the NFC Reference Group. The consultant will report to this group, which will report to the NFC Reference Group. The consultant will liaise with the Secretariat, the administrative body for the NFC Reference Group, for operational issues such as the co-ordination of meetings with the Project Management Group. Independent medical experts relevant to this service would need to be contracted by the consultant.