Service market

Camhs tier 4 contracts

UK public sector · 96 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
96
Last 12 months
Median contract
£30k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£417m
66 of 96 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
23
Suppliers
44

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What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most camhs tier 4 contracts took 57% of them (55 of 96).
  • The median contract, £30k, is 71% below the median across healthcare contracts (£106k).
  • North West had the most contracts: 18, or 19% of the total.

Who buys camhs tier 4

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust31 contracts
  2. 2Aneurin Bevan University Health Board17 contracts
  3. 3Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust8 contracts
  4. 4Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust7 contracts
  5. 5Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust5 contracts
  6. 6Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts
  7. 7Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts
  8. 8NHS South West London Integrated Care Board3 contracts
  9. 9Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts
  10. 10Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts

Top camhs tier 4 contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Cygnet Health Care28 contracts
  2. 2Priory12 contracts
  3. 3Elysium Healthcare12 contracts
  4. 4Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal4 contracts
  5. 5Partnerships in Care3 contracts
  6. 6Priory Hospital Bristol3 contracts
  7. 7Priory Hospital Arnold3 contracts
  8. 8Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts
  9. 9Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts
  10. 10Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

12Q4 2025*35Q1 202625Q2 202624Q3 20260Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 78 · Wales 18

North West18Wales18West Midlands16East Midlands10Yorkshire and The Humber7South East7North East5South West4East of England3London3UK-wide or not stated5

What is included

Psychiatric hospital beds bought as placements, block contracts or frameworks: acute and psychiatric intensive care, low and medium secure, CAMHS tier 4, young adult, learning disability hospital and specialist dementia inpatient care, including care of patients detained under the Mental Health Act.

  • Acute and PICU beds
  • Low and medium secure placements including women's secure services
  • CAMHS tier 4 inpatient beds
  • Out-of-area specialist hospital placements
  • Independent sector inpatient frameworks for mental health, learning disability and CAMHS
  • Specialist dementia hospital-based complex clinical care
  • Assessment and treatment of detained patients

What is not included

  • Community eating disorder treatment (hlt.mh.eating-disorder-services)
  • Learning disability community and specialist clinical models (hlt.mh.learning-disability-autism-specialist-health)
  • Secure patient conveyance (sec.custody.secure-patient-transport)
  • Care home placements including dementia nursing homes (soc.res.nursing-home-placements)
  • Mental health supported accommodation (soc.supp.mental-health-supported-accommodation)
  • Healthcare in prisons (hlt.justice.prison-detention-healthcare)

Often bought by the same buyers