Urgent Eye Care Services in South West London

Concepts

• health services
• urgent eye care services
• south west london
• south west
• service criteria
• appropriate service
• acute care
• urgent ocular presentations
• management of recent onset
• initial contact

Location

SWL boroughs of Wandsworth, Merton, Sutton, Kingston and Richmond

Description

The service is commissioned from a lead provider (PES) to deliver urgent eye care services from numerous local optical practices. The Service provides initial contact, telephone triage, remote consultations and where necessary face to face assessments and management of recent onset symptomatic or urgent ocular presentations.

Total Quantity or Scope

The service is commissioned to deliver urgent eye care services from numerous local optical practices. … The anticipated outcomes from the service include management within the service ( with patients discharged post management), onward referral to acute care (for patients requiring more complex management), onward referral to another healthcare provider (for patients requiring follow up outside the service). The service will also signpost any patients that do not meet service criteria to the most appropriate service for their needs.

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 85100000 - Health services

Indicators

Legal Justification

Extreme emergency brought about by events unforeseeable for the contracting authority (impact of COVID pandemic). The contract is being awarded to secure urgently required clinical capacity within primary care for urgent eye conditions. This supports the maintenance of capacity within acute care and within GP practices to manage other conditions due to the pressures that have developed as a consequence of the COVID pandemic.

Other Information

The contract is being awarded to secure urgently required clinical capacity within primary care for urgent eye conditions. This supports the maintenance of capacity within acute care and within GP practices to manage other conditions due to the pressures that have developed as a consequence of the COVID pandemic.