The Provision of Caretaking GP Services: Whitestone Surgery

Concepts

• warwick
• general practitioner
• primary care medical services
• whitestone surgery
• additional services
• essential services
• regulated primary care services
• urgent caretaking arrangements
• the nhs general medical services regulations
• caretaking gp services

Location

82 Bulkington Lane Nuneaton CV11 3SB

Description

NHS Coventry & Warwickshire Integrated Care Board made an urgent direct award of a short term APMS contract in January 2024 for Primary Care Medical Services to be provided under Urgent Caretaking Arrangements at Whitestone Surgery following an Expression of Interest Process for an initial 6-month period with an option to extend for a further 6 months with the identified provider pending final CQC outcome.

Total Quantity or Scope

The contractor will be required to provide all Essential Services, Additional Services throughout core hours as determined in the NHS General Medical Services Regulations 2004 and subsequent amendments. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) suspended registration for a period of 6 months with immediate effect (17th January 2024). The immediate impact was that the holder of the CQC registration was no longer able to perform regulated primary care services until at least the end of the 6-month period. Therefore, the ICB's responsibility was to commission care for the registered patients of Whitestone Surgery. Due to the ongoing CQC regulatory process we are looking to extend this contract for a further 6 months. Lifetime value of the contract is - £400,000 and the contract is being delivered between the following dates; Original Contract - 29th January 2024 - 29th July 2024 Option to extend - 30th July 2024 - 31st January 2025

Award Detail

Renewal Options

Option to extend for a further 6 months to 31st January 2025 with the identified provider pending final CQC outcome.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 85121100 - General-practitioner services

Indicators

• Options are available.
• Award on basis of price.

Legal Justification

Urgent award due to CQC suspension of registration.

Other Information

The original contract period: 29th January 2024 - 29th July 2024. The option to extend period: 30th July 2024 - 31st January 2025. This contract has been awarded under the urgent circumstances provision of the Provider Selection Regime (PSR). This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The justification to why the award was made under urgent circumstances was due to CQC suspension of registration. The decision makers were the following people from Coventry & Warwickshire Integrated Care Board; Tim Sacks, Director of Primary Care Sarah Johnson, Head of Primary Care Contracts and Assurance Mike Caley, Medical Director No conflicts of interests declared of the individuals making the decision.