Primary Care Local Improvement Scheme for Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care Board

Concepts

• medical practice
• worcester
• worcestershire integrated care board
• nhs herefordshire
• worcestershire improvement scheme service
• herefordshire
• worcestershire integrated care boards strategic commissioning committee
• worcestershire
• primary care local improvement scheme
• worcestershire integrated care boards

Location

The counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire

Description

This Local Improvement Scheme constitutes a supplementary agreement to the GMS contracts held by GP practices within NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care Board. This means that only a provider currently offering essential primary medical services to a list of patients under a GMS/PMS/APMS contract will be eligible to provide any of the services outlined under the Herefordshire and Worcestershire Improvement Scheme Service Offer.

Total Quantity or Scope

This Local Improvement Scheme contract has been awarded in accordance with Regulation 8 of the Provider Selection Regime Regulations Direct Award Process B (Provider Selection Regime) for the period 1st July 2024 to 30th June 2025. This contract was initially agreed in 2022/2023 with ringfenced funding agreed until 30th June 2027. The parties agreed that the requirements under this agreement are intended to be reviewed and amended each contract year and will not automatically be renewed unless notified; for example, as a result of changes to priorities, or if a particular area of improvement is considered to have been achieved to the extent required by NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care Board. The total contract value is based on £11.00 per weighted patient based on the GP Practice List sizes as of 1st April 2024. The total financial envelope for 2024/2025 is £9.3m. Additional information: Contract award approval was agreed at NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care Board's Strategic Commissioning Committee on the 12th June 2024, and contract offer letters were issued to the 78 existing GP Practice providers in Herefordshire and Worcestershire on 21st June 2024.

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 85121000 - Medical practice services
• 85121100 - General-practitioner services

Legal Justification

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice, pursuant to Direct Award Process B (Regulation 8). 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.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** The contract award for the Clinical Excellence and Improvement Framework (CEIF) covers the following services: End of Life (EOL) •Advanced Care Planning to be offered for new palliative care register patients •Patients with severe frailty should be placed on palliative care register to facilitate proactive care and an advanced care plan Proactive Care: Frailty •Development of Frailty register •Risk stratification (Moderate Frailty) •MDT meeting with partners and interventions •Development of comprehensive geriatric assessments •Focus on areas of high deprivation Long Term Conditions - Cardiovascular Disease •Primary prevention - Screening/Searches & holistic health review (focus on areas of high deprivation) •Secondary prevention - Audit and action plan for CHOL001 exclusion/PCA cohorts Tackling Health Inequalities •Agree with District Collaboratives/CAN one project to work on together to reduce health inequality in the community Medicine •Engagement • to include Analyse Rx as business as usual •Repeat prescribing •new national repeat prescribing audit completion •removal of the practice medicines co-ordinator requirement •Antimicrobial stewardship - target for total items/Specific Therapeutic group Age-sex Related Prescribing Unit (STAR PU) •Audits •sodium valproate in women under 55 •oral nutritional supplement prescribing •Cost effective and quality prescribing (including sustainability) •cost saving and sustainability activity •quality and Structured Medicine Reviews (SMR). This Local Improvement Scheme contract was approved at NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care Board's Strategic Commissioning Committee on 12th June 2024. A declaration of interest register was circulated to all Strategic Commissioning Committee members, with no further declarations or conflicts raised during the meeting. The meeting was confirmed as quorate. The names of the contractors (i.e., the 78 existing GP Practices in Herefordshire and Worcestershire) are as follows: Abbey Medical Practice Abbottswood Medical Centre Albany House Surgery Alton Street Surgery Aylmer Lodge Cookley Partnership Barbourne Health Centre Barnt Green Surgery Belmont Medical Centre Bewdley Medical Centre Bredon Hill Surgery Cantilupe Surgery Catshill Surgery Chaddesley Corbett Surgery Church Street Surgery Churchfields Surgery Colwall Surgery Corbett Medical Practice Cornhill Surgery Crabbs Cross Medical Centre Crabbs Cross Surgery Cradley Surgery Davenal House Surgery Partnership DeMontfort Medical Centre Elbury Moor Medical Centre Elgar House Surgery Fownhope Medical Centre Glebelands Surgery Golden Valley Practice Great Witley Surgery Grey Gable Surgery Hagley Surgery Haresfield Surgery Hereford Medical Group Hillview Medical Centre Hollyoaks Medical Centre Hollywood Medical Practice Kidderminster Medical Centre Kington Medical Practice Knightwick Surgery Ledbury Health Partnership Malvern Health Centre Merstow Green Medical Practice Mortimer Medical Practice Much Birch Surgery New Barn Close Surgery New Court Surgery New Road Surgery, Bromsgrove New Road Surgery, Rubery Northumberland House Surgery Nunwell Surgery Ombersley Medical Centre Pendeen Surgery Pershore Medical Practice Riverside Surgery Ryeland Surgery Salters Medical Practice Severn Valley Medical Practice Spa Medical Practice Spring Gardens Medical Practice St Johns House Medical Centre St John's Surgery St Martins Gate Surgery St Saviours Surgery St Stephen's Medical Partnership Stanmore House Surgery Stourport Medical Centre Tenbury Surgery The Bridge Surgery The Dow Surgery The Ridgeway Surgery The Surgery Kingstone Thorneloe Lodge Surgery Upton Surgery Wargrave House Weobley & Staunton on Wye Surgeries Whiteacres Medical Centre Winyates Surgery Wolverley Surgery