Health services

Tender description

NHS Hounslow CCG intends to contract with at-scale general practice organisations for a single contract of enhanced primary care services from 1.4.2018. This will bring a range of current primary care components into a single offer. These include the current services in the Out of Hospital Service contracts. This single contract will reduce the transactional burden on both the CCG and practices, ensuring a broader population health based approach and supporting collaboration across the delivery of care to all patients in the Hounslow area. It will support the consistency of standards across primary care at scale. The contract focusses primarily on improving the health of patients with complex needs and long term conditions but also includes other areas of health care (e.g. patient experience, access, cancer screening ). NHS Hounslow CCG is due to contract with at-scale general practice organisations. The services included within the contract are mutually dependent upon the core GMS/PMS/APMS Contract. However, many services may require delivery at scale for the benefit of practices and patients, with inter-practice referral arrangements in place. This mutual dependency means that the Hounslow Primary Care Contract may be legitimately commissioned exclusively from at-scale general practice organisations. This is defined as: a legal entity whose membership includes, or who can demonstrate the ability to sub-contract with, NHS Hounslow CCG based providers who deliver essential primary medical services to a list of patients under either General Medical Services Contract (GMS), Personal Medical Services Contract (PMS) or Alternative Provider Medical Services Contract (APMS) membership of local list-based providers OR a defined network (underpinned by a memorandum of understanding) of NHS Hounslow CCG based providers who deliver essential primary medical services to a list of patients under either General Medical Services Contract (GMS), a defined network Personal Medical Services Contract (PMS) or Alternative Provider Medical Services Contract (APMS). An on-going process of provider assurance and provider development will be in place from November 2017 as part of this contracting approach, to ensure that new primary care at-scale organisations are ready and capable to hold the contract from 1st April 2018.