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NHS Northern, Eastern and Western Devon CCG is looking for expressions of interest from suppliers to engage in an open market engagement exercise for Urgent Care Services in Northern and Eastern Devon. NHS NEW Devon CCG is looking for expressions of interest from suppliers of Urgent care services to engage in a market engagement exercise. As part of this exercise the CCG is hosting a Provider Engagement Event on 21.6.2018 at Cullompton Community Centre, Cullompton, EX15 1JX. The CCG is reviewing the model of Community Urgent Care services in response to NHS England guidance issued in 2017. This guidance sets out the requirement for a consistent model of Urgent Treatment Centres (UTC), though recognising that rural and sparsely populated areas may require an alternative approach, and an alternative community/primary care service, which may be a GP access hub. Based on this, the event will aim to answer the following question: “What principles and criteria should we use to identify the model for Community Urgent Care in Northern and Eastern Devon, in light of the clear parameters set by the latest UTC guidance.”. The outputs of this event, plus other engagement activities the CCG will be undertaking, will contribute to the future design of the model of Community Urgent Care services in Northern and Eastern Devon. New contracts are due to be in place on 1.4.2019. Commissioners envisage that the contract term will be 5 years. This is subject to change through the market engagement process and will only be finalised when any contract notice is issued. For reasons of commercial confidentiality the cost profile of individual services cannot be discussed in the meeting and the criteria sought are objective measures of service delivery for the population rather than a subjective review of one site in relation to another. With the shape of future services still to be determined, it is not possible to give an estimated financial value at this stage. To register an interest and attend the open market engagement event, interested parties are asked to register on the commissioners e-procurement portal via the following link: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home The project reference is Northern and Eastern Devon Urgent care redesign 2018. Once you have expressed interest please download the Market engagement template and return the completed form to confirm attendance. The form requires details of who will be representing your organisation (full name and job title). A maximum of 3 invitations per company can be provided. The closing date for requests to attend the Provider Engagement Event is 12:00 midday on 8.6.2018.