Special-purpose road passenger-transport services

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Non-emergency Patient Transport Services (NEPTS) across Sussex. This is a VEAT notice for the award of an additional contract of 12 months to the incumbent provider. Patient transport journeys are booked for patients being moved to and from NHS funded treatment at a range of sites across Sussex including acute hospitals and local venues providing community-based care. The service is responsible for safely and effectively transporting eligible patients between their nominated place of residence, to, from and between NHS-funded healthcare facilities in a timely manner, so that they can receive the health care for which they are booked. Non-emergency Patient Transport Services (NEPTS) across Sussex. The Covid-19 outbreak has delayed the Commissioners detailed preparation and engagement for a full procurement for the non- emergency patient transport services in Sussex. This has given rise to an urgent need to secure a safe continued provision of service during these uncertain times. There is insufficient time for West Sussex CCG, East Sussex CCG and Brighton and Hove CCG to comply with undertaking a competitive procurement process under Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Accordingly, the contracting authority considers this is a state of urgency that is duly substantiated and been brought about by circumstances which a diligent contracting authority could not have foreseen and award an additional contract of 12 months to the incumbent provider. This does not alter the overall nature of the contract. Patient transport journeys are booked for patients being moved to and from NHS funded treatment at a range of sites across Sussex including acute hospitals and local venues providing community-based care. The service is responsible for safely and effectively transporting eligible patients between their nominated place of residence, to, from and between NHS-funded healthcare facilities in a timely manner, so that they can receive the health care for which they are booked. This responsibility includes: — providing a single point of access and full booking service for patients and HCPs; — equitable and consistent application of the eligibility criteria to all patients and carers; — signposting patients who are not eligible for PTS to alternative transport arrangements; — effective determination of mobility need or needs; — allocation of journeys across the sub-contracted transport providers through an equitable, open and transparent process; — effective communication and collaboration with system wide stakeholders; — coordination and management of all patient journeys; — timely reporting to commissioners. The three CCGs named in this notice are successor entities (since 1 April 2020) of: — NHS West Sussex CCG — NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG, NHS Crawley CCG, NHS Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG; — NHS East Sussex — NHS High Weald Lewes Havens CCG, NHS Eastbourne Hastings and Seaford CCG, NHS Hastings and Rother CCG; — NHS Brighton and Hove CCG — no change.