Cataract Service

Concepts

• health services
• lewes
• cataract services
• money cataract services
• nhs cataract surgery
• safe and effective cataract service provision
• service users
• cataract
• nhs patients
• equitable delivery

Location

Sussex

Description

The Provider will: • Deliver high quality and value for money cataract services that reflect the best practice guidance set out by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Getting it Right First Time and the NHSE National Eye Care Recovery and Transformation Programme (NECRTP) and NICE. • Maintain capacity to support the overall commissioned activity of the ICS, thus ensuring delivery of the national 18-week referral to treatment (RTT) cataract pathway and reduction in waiting list backlogs. • Maintain access to cataract services in accessible hospital and community settings, that provides care closer to home, improves choice, delivers greater consistency and equity in access to services across the localities. The key objectives of the service are: • To ensure the provision of safe and effective cataract service provision to NHS patients • To free up outpatient and primary eye care capacity for patients at higher risk of sight loss • To ensure the delivery of training for the next generation of consultant ophthalmologists through equitable delivery of training to NHS trainees in all providers of NHS cataract surgery • To ensure Service Users with urgent post-surgery issues and complications can be advised and managed by the Provider's own surgical ophthalmic team with any requirement and resource for other providers to support this clearly agreed. • To achieve, and drive improvements in, the NECRTP high flow cataract pathway. This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Contract Award Notice (via Direct Award B).

Total Quantity or Scope

This is £5,599,798.00 p.a. for 4 years. The contract start date is 01.04.2024 The contract end date is 31.03.2028 This is an existing provider.

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 85100000 - Health services

Legal Justification

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 Direct Award Process B. 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. ** This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. 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 award decision maker for NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board is the Deputy Director Acute Services. There are no declared or potential conflicts of interest of individuals making the decision and how these were managed.