Extended Access to Primary Care Services Ref 17.371 on behalf of NHS Hastings and Rother CCG and NHS Eastbourne Hailsham and Seaford CCG

Tender description

The Commissioner wishes to use this market engagement opportunity to seek views about its strategy to commission the service. This is a process designed to help the Commissioner form a view of the best way to commission the service and is not the beginning of a Tender exercise. A further Tender advertisement will be issued at the appropriate time where required. The Extended Access to Primary Care is a new service which can be provided by practices, localities or from central locations. To provide an additional 30 minutes consultation capacity per 1000 population incorporating: a) Weekday provision of access to pre-bookable and same day appointments to general practice services in evenings (after 6.30pm) to provide an additional 1.5 hours a day, b) Weekend provision of access to pre-bookable and same day appointments on both Saturdays and Sundays to meet local population needs, c) Not all appointments need to be GP face to face consultations: Provision can be via telephone consultation or other consultation methods and can be conducted by an appropriate health care professional to meet the patient clinical need. Extended access is to be provided within each locality and can be delivered by practices, localities or from central locations enabling groups of practices/ federations/organisations to work together ensuring sustainability of provision of services. The maximum value of the service for 2018/19 to provide the stated extended hours service for our population is for - Hasting and Rother £629,035 - Eastbourne Hailsham and Seaford £652,936 The values shown for 2018/19 are based on £3.34 per person of the CCGs population. The value for 2019/20 will be based on £6 per person to provide extended hours service for the whole CCG population. To obtain further information, please download the attachment to view our Request for Information that includes the RFI document with embedded draft specification and instructions to submit your response by midday 22nd December 2017.