General-practitioner services

Tender description

The Commissioner wishes to use this market engagement opportunity to seek views about its strategy to commission the service. 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 18:30) 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. 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 1 000 population incorporating: a) Weekday provision of access to pre-bookable and same day appointments to general practice services in evenings (after 18:30) 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 GBP — Eastbourne Hailsham and Seaford 652 936 GBP The values shown for 2018/19 are based on 3.34 GBP per person of the CCGs population. The value for 2019/20 will be based on 6 GBP per person to provide extended hours service for the whole CCG population. The contract term currently envisaged is either: A) A procurement for a 2 year contract (with the Commissioner option to extend by up to a further 1 year). The Commissioner would review the service during the contract and consider emerging patient requirements and how the service integrates with the other urgent care including e.g. 111, UTCs, or other services which are streaming or triaging patients (see specification for additional details). This means that the planning of the CCGs for the end of the contract would include their consideration if to undertake a new procurement or to include this service within other urgent care services. B) A procurement for a longer term e.g. 3 years (with the Commissioner option to extend by up to a further 2 years). To obtain further information, please follow this link to access our Request for Information that includes the draft specification and instructions to submit your response by midday 22.12.2017, https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/074d9982-dea9-4a43-8053-a30bda7908ec The ‘Estimated date of publication of contract notice’ is unclear at this stage until the Commissioner has reviewed the responses received to this market engagement process.