Health services

Tender description

The General Practice Access Fund Service will deliver a GP-led service for the registered population of Milton Keynes, primarily delivered outside of core primary care working hours (i.e. not Monday to Friday 8:00 to 18:30). The aim of the service is to improve patient access to general practice by creating additional pre-bookable primary care appointments through a centralised system. The objectives of the Service are to: — Deliver high quality GP services, at times outside the GP services contract and in addition to existing services; — Create and facilitate primary care based models for working at scale; — To improve patient experience; — To improve patient access to primary care services. The contract will be for three years commencing 1.4.2017 with a value of circa 1 500 000 GBP (excluding VAT) per annum.