Enhanced Access

Concepts

• health and social work
• additional capacity hub access
• full access
• enhanced
• gp practice usual operational hours
• gp appointments
• other gp practices
• gp practice
• routine appointments
• hours

Location

LONDON

Description

To improve access to primary care by creating additional capacity Hub access in Wandsworth. The provider will be commissioned as a primary care hub to provide routine appointments meeting a set specification.

Total Quantity or Scope

• Enable patients to access GP appointments 8am to 8pm, 7 days a week through: o Primary care hubs providing routine appointments during evening and weekends or at other times when other GP practices are closed o GP practices providing urgent (where clinically required) appointments within 4 hours during GP Practice usual operational hours • Develop closer working relationships with NHS 111 including supporting the Directory of Service development and ability to directly book appointments. • Enable the Emergency Department at St Georges to book patients at the primary care hubs. • Enable Primary Care Hubs to undertake effective routine consultations with full access to the patient's electronic record. BHCIC intend to award a contract to an existing provider following Direct Award Process C for three years with a 12 month notice of termination from 1/4/2024 to 31/3 2027. This is a cost and volume contract. The expenditure for 2023/24 was £98620, ie expected lifetime value of the contract could be £295860

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 85000000 - Health and social work services

Indicators

• Award on basis of price and quality.

Legal Justification

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intension to award notice. The awarding of the contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the Public Contracts regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. Representation by providers must be made to the relevant authority by midnight on 17/4/24 (8 working days following publication of intention to award notice). This contract has not yet formally been awarded, this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR.

Other Information

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulation 2015 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. Representations by providers must be made to decision makers by midnight of 17/4/2024 x (8 working days following publication of award notice). This is a cost and volume contract and the total contract price may not be the same as the figure quoted. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR. Bedford Hill Family Practice has been delivering this service at a high level and likely to satisfy the proposed new contract. The new Contract has no significant changes. The Provider passed the award criteria score for both Key and Basic selection criteria. The BHCIC Board made the decision to award contract on 20/3/2024. Any written representation should be sent to swlicb.contracts.bhcic@nhs.net