West Essex Integrated Urgent Care - NHS 111, GP Extended Access & OOH Services

Tender description

West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group plans to hold a pre-procurement ‘Market Awareness Provider Event’ on 21st February 2017 at the address below. Providers who wish to attend are asked to Register on the Attain Bravo portal and complete and return the attendees form using the messaging facility. West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group is seeking to commission an Integrated Urgent Care Service. The CCG will be undertaking one procurement process but with two separate Lots, covering the following services: Lot 1 - NHS 111 inclusive of call handling, clinical triage and an enhanced clinical hub; and Lot 2 – GP Access Fund and GP OOH The services are to be procured based on the Integrated Urgent Care Commissioning standards published in September 2015 to deliver to the public and healthcare professionals a single point of telephony access into urgent care alongside their registered GP and affording the CCG the ability to co-ordinate urgent care intervention through the NHS 111 service, the clinical hub, GP Access Fund and GP OOHs.