Medical practice services

Tender description

Lothian Health Board is seeking expressions of interest in providing primary medical services to 4938 patients in the Fauldhouse and Stoneyburn area. The Breich Valley Medical Practice operates from the Fauldhouse Partnership Centre, Lanrigg Road, Fauldhouse, EH47 9JD (Main location) and Stoneyburn Health Centre, 73 Main Street, Stoneyburn, EH47 8BY (Branch Surgery). This requirement has arisen due to planned retiral of the current independent contractor providing primary medical services. Lothian Health Board wishes to select a new service provider with the capacity and capability to meet the needs of these patients by delivering high quality, patient-centred clinical services. Lothian Health Board (more commonly known as NHS Lothian) (“NHS Lothian”) placed an advertisement in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) on 6.1.2018 seeking expressions of interest from any parties interested in providing primary medical services to patients in Fauldhouse and Stoneyburn area. This requirement has arisen due to planned retiral of the current independent contractor providing primary medical services located in the Breich Valley Medical Practice, Fauldhouse Partnership Centre, Lanrigg Road, Fauldhouse, EH47 9JD (Main location) and Stoneyburn Health Centre, 73 Main Street, Stoneyburn, EH47 8BY (Branch Surgery) to a list of 4938 patients. NHS Lothian wishes to select a new service provider with the capacity and capability to meet the needs of these patients by delivering high quality, patient-centred clinical services in a primary care setting, all in accordance with NHS Lothian’s requirements set out in Appendix 1 (“Requirement”). The services will build on existing best practice, and focus on a community and health and social care approach. The clinical services will be delivered in an environment that provides patient care of a standard consistent with that of similar services provided elsewhere within NHS Lothian. It is NHS Lothian’s preference that Breich Valley Medical Practice remains as a single practice, although in the event that no satisfactory application is made for the provision of the services as a whole, consideration may be given to proposals from Applicants who wish to provide primary medical services from 1 site. Applicants that already hold a GMS Contract may therefore offer to provide primary medical services from one site to patients that currently receive services from that site. Any such application will be evaluated as a separate lot in accordance with the evaluation methodology below. It will be important that Applicants involved in the planning and/or delivery of existing schemes and services can demonstrate that they have sufficient capacity so as not to prejudice delivery of primary medical services under any other contract an Applicant may have with NHS Lothian or pre-existing schemes or the ability of NHS Lothian itself to deliver services. The successful Applicant will be required to enter into a contract with NHS Lothian on the terms of the General Medical Services Contract (“GMS Contract”) the form of which is prescribed by The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Scotland) Regulations 2004, as amended, or replaced from time to time. Performance by the successful Applicant under the terms of the GMS Contract will be subject to these Regulations available at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/115/contents/made