Community-based elective care services in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland

Concepts

• leicester
• health and social work
• community health
• local health care needs
• integrated care pathways
• community-based elective care services
• community settings
• diagnostic and elective care and treatment services
• rutland
• care

Location

Leicester:

Geochart for 1 buyers and 1 suppliers

NHS Leicester Leicestershire & Rutland Icb

LLR Patient Care Locally CIC

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Description

The service includes a range of integrated referral management, diagnostic and elective care and treatment services within community settings across a broad range of specialties. It includes a strong emphasis on local collaborations and integrated care pathways, with a focus on patient satisfaction, clinical governance and meeting local health care needs. There is a strong commitment to improve healthcare for all the people of LLR, with services being delivered as close to home as possible.

Total Quantity or Scope

The service includes a range of integrated referral management, diagnostic and elective care and treatment services within community settings across a broad range of specialties. It includes a strong emphasis on local collaborations and integrated care pathways, with a focus on patient satisfaction, clinical governance and meeting local health care needs. There is a strong commitment to improve healthcare for all the people of LLR, with services being delivered as close to home as possible. The ICB is intending to award a contract to an existing provider following direct award process C, where the existing provider is satisfying the existing contract and will likely satisfy the proposed new contract, and the contract is not changing considerably, and the test for considerable change is not met. The approximate indicative lifetime value of the contract is £16.6m (for the 6 months contract plus the 6 months extension). The dates between which the services are intended to be provided are: 01/04/2025 to 30/09/2025, with an option to extend by another 6 months until the 31st of March 2026.

Award Detail

Renewal Options

The contract can be extended by up to 6 months.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 85000000 - Health and social work services
• 85323000 - Community health services

Indicators

• Options are available.

Legal Justification

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 Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period, which begins the day after this notice is published. Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by midnight of the 28th March 2025. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** 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 Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period, which begins the day after this notice is published. Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by midnight of the 28th March 2025. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR. Email address where written representations should be sent: llricb-llr.contracting@nhs.net Details of the award decision-makers: NHS LLR ICB System Executive Committee, Strategic Commissioning Group on 14th of March 2025. The non-conflicted LLR ICB of System Exec Committee members have assessed the nature and the risk of this conflict and have decided to exclude any conflicted members from related discussions and decision-making. The Contracting Authority has assessed the provider's suitability and technical / professional ability to undertake this service based on their current activities and performance. The provider's economic and financial standing has been considered in proportion to the contract value and terms. Relative importance and rationale for the relative importance of the key criteria, and the rationale for choosing the provider with reference to the key criteria: 1. Quality and innovation The provider is achieving their current contract KPIs - where the patients with diagnostics are long waiting patients they are transferred to the provider to support the backlog at other providers, the provider is increasing capacity to ensure the system can support patients treated within 6 weeks. Quality and safeguarding compliance are assured via current contract management processes. 2. Value The provider offers some elective services at less than tariff , which has been evaluated as offering good value in terms of costs, and overall benefits to service users. 3. Integration, collaboration and service sustainability The provider works closely with General Practice, PCNs and Federations to provide a mechanism for a greater unified voice for General Practice. The provider has a strong emphasis on local collaborations and integrated care pathways, with a focus on patient satisfaction, local integrated clinical governance and meeting local health care needs. 4. Improving access, reducing health inequalities and facilitating choice The provider manages the Referral Support Service. A wide range of specialties are triaged by clinicians via the e-RS referral portal and are clinically triaged to the most appropriate setting e.g., Secondary Care or a Community Service. Patients are offered the choice of appointment within LLR, which can be local to them, at a location with shorter waiting times or at a more convenient place for the patient. By offering choice of appointments in a community setting to patients, improves health inequalities and delivers the same improvements and access to care for all. Patients also have the option of choosing to be seen in an acute setting if that is what they prefer. 5. Social value The provider was created by LLR GPs in 2011. In 2021 it became a Community Interest Company. As a Community Interest Company, PCL reinvests back into the local healthcare community across LLR. This includes establishing an Equipment rental fund and supporting transformation and inequalities work such as supporting the agenda for the development of health and wellbeing hubs across LLR. By providing healthcare in the community setting, this is reducing carbon emissions by providing the service close and patients requiring to travel less.