Northstar Healthcare Consultancy Awarded £93,000 Eating Disorder Service Contract

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board intends to award Northstar Healthcare Consultancy Ltd a £93,000 contract to provide specialist implementation support for its Eating Disorder Service within the Mental Health Clinical Board.

The support is required as the current service operates across Tier 2 and Tier 3 pathways with different organisational and governance arrangements. The Health Board identified issues including the absence of a single whole-pathway governance framework and routine service dashboard, limited paired outcome reporting and inconsistent referral and assessment processes.

The work will also support preparations for Open Access arrangements in line with Welsh policy direction.

The contract is expected to run from 1 December 2026 to 31 May 2027, with a possible extension to 30 November 2027 dependent on the success and rollout of the primary contract and the meeting of objectives and KPIs.

The contract is being awarded without competition. The Health Board stated that no alternative suppliers were identified during market engagement and no suitable options were available through national procurement frameworks.

Northstar Healthcare Consultancy Ltd is an SME.

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