Supply of Palliative Care Medication in the Community

Concepts

• health and social work
• palliative care drugs
• palliative care medication
• prescribed palliative care medication
• palliative care medicines
• life care needs
• participating community pharmacy / pharmacies
• participating community pharmacy/ pharmacies
• care
• medications

Location

London:

Description

To establish an operational framework to ensure the availability and supply of palliative care medication in the community across the London Borough of Wandsworth.

Total Quantity or Scope

to provide a key community-based resource that supports the avoidance of unplanned hospital admissions for patients with palliative/end of life care needs. This service seeks to put robust arrangements in place for End of Life medications to be easily available for patients being cared for in their usual place of residence. The service will provide access to an agreed stock list of palliative care medicines from one or more community pharmacies, 24 hours/day, 365 days per year. Participating community pharmacy / pharmacies will deliver prescribed palliative care medication to the patients place of residence within 2 hours of prescription being received by them. To ensure a standardised service across Wandsworth, participating community pharmacy/ pharmacies will be required to continually stock an approved stock list of palliative care drugs (that may include specified brands of drug).

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 85000000 - Health and social work 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. 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. BHCIC Board has formally awarded this contract to the Pearl Chemist Limited for three years with a 12 month notice of termination from 1/4/2024 to 31/3 2027 using Direct Award Process A. This is a cost and volume contract.