Health services

Tender description

The Out of Hours Primary Medical Services are defined as those services provided in the out of hours period (see below) which would be essential services provided by a primary medical contractor, for example at the patient's own GP practice, during core hours. The Provider would be required to provide these services if it is established that the patient cannot wait to be seen by a practitioner within core hours. The Out of Hours operating times will be: — The period beginning at 6:30pm on any weekday from Monday to Thursday and ending at 8:00am on the following day, — The period between 6:30pm on Friday and 8:00am on the following Monday, — All bank holidays. The aims of the Service are to provide a clinically safe and competent GP Out of Hours Service accessible to the population of Northamptonshire. The Service will provide access to unplanned urgent care; working in partnership with the wider urgent care system across primary, community, secondary health and social care. A contract will agreed with the successful Bidder for a period of 3 years [with the Commissioner having the option to extend the Contract for up to a further 2 years]. The current contract for the Services will end on 31.3.2018 and as a result the successful provider is expected to be fully operational, providing services from 1.4.2018.