Health services

Tender description

Direct award Acute Visiting Service (AVS) and Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH) services for Southampton City Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG. The CCG are awarding directly to the incumbent provider, Southampton Primary Care Ltd (SPCL), as an interim solution, as per the Prior Information Notice (PIN) previously published: 2020/S 051-122276. Due to the timeline for working with PCN CDs to identify the models moving forward, the CCG are awarding directly to SPCL for 1 year, from 1 April 2020 until 31 March 2021.The value of the contract is based on a 12-month award. As per the previously published prior information notice (2020/S 051-122276), Southampton City CCG is directly awarding to Southampton Primary Care Ltd (SPCL) for the Acute Visiting Service (AVS) and Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH). Following a transparent, compliant and auditable process, the contract will be in force for 1 year, from 1 April 2020 until 31 March 2021. The Acute Home Visiting Service provides acute home visits on behalf of all practices in Southampton but does not fully replace practice home visiting arrangements. The service enables timely home visits, early assessment, investigation and discharge to an appropriate health professional in the community, an integrated approach to home visiting, improved patient experience, smoothing of peaks in demand for urgent care services throughout the day, reduction in number of non-elective admissions or length of stay and reduction in health risks associated with hospitalisation. The Enhanced Health in care homes service complements the GMS core contract by providing EHCH locality teams have a regular presence and provide a ‘named clinician’ to each of the homes across the city and visits all new residents and all patients after an incident of concern (e.g. hospital admission, out of hours ambulance call and A&E attendance) to either undertake their initial comprehensive geriatric assessment or review their existing assessment (including medication reviews) and support the development/update of their care plan.