Enhanced and Urgent Primary Care Services

Tender description

Southampton City CCG will be holding a Market Engagement Event on the 23rd May for Enhanced and Urgent Primary Care Services. To register your interest and obtain the event details please register on the E-tendering portal In-tend (full instructions found in attachment area), project reference F10507, download the Request for Information Form and return a completed form. Overview of service: It is the intention of Southampton City CCG to utilise a compliant Tender process, to commission a new integrated enhanced and urgent primary care service that is: • Tailored to the communities of Southampton City. • Easy to access from a patient perspective - providing choice of routine and urgent appointments at evenings and weekends This new integrated service will replace the current GP Out of Hours (OOH) service that is commissioned across the wider Southern Hampshire area and also build on pioneering work in the city over the last 2 years to deliver extended access to primary care beyond usual surgery opening hours that has been funded to date by the Prime Minister's Access Fund. The new service is comprised of three components: • Enhanced Access to Primary Care • Urgent Access to primary care (outside core GMS service hours) • Urgent Home Visiting (outside core GMS service hours) It is the intention of commissioners that the new provider will deliver these three components of this service in a highly integrated and cohesive way, under one contract. This contract promotes ease of access for local people, has strong and effective relationships with other services (e.g. 111, GP practices, community services), delivers the most appropriate clinical response to meet individual need (including support and advice around self-care where appropriate) and reduces unnecessary hospitalisation. More information can be found in the memorandum of Information found in attachments.