Market Engagement Event for Urgent Care Service within Buckinghamshire

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Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICB (BOB) is reviewing the provision of Urgent Care within Buckinghamshire and will be holding a market engagement event in August to discuss plans with interested suppliers. Currently BOB has a multitude of access points to urgent and emergency care services with uncertainty and inconsistency across the delivery of care and is looking to integrate urgent care services to deliver a single, effective model of same day care bringing together: - The Urgent Treatment Centre at Wycombe Hospital - The Urgent Treatment Centre Pathway at Stoke Mandeville Hospital - Out of Hours Service - Primary Care Clinical Assessment Service (receiving all 111 Primary Care in-hours dispositions on behalf of Buckinghamshire GP Practices). This new integrated service contract is planned to start on Monday 1st July 2024 through a competitive procurement process seeking a single provider to deliver integrated Urgent Care Services for the Buckinghamshire population. A potential contract term of 5 + 2 years is being considered. The successful provider will demonstrate the ability to deliver an integrated urgent care service across the Buckinghamshire place working closely and collaboratively with our existing services including the Acute Trust, Primary Care, Ambulance Service and 111 as well as any other service providers to support long term sustainable Urgent and Emergency Care transformation across the Buckinghamshire footprint. This market engagement event is an opportunity for interested providers to hear details regarding the strategic intent, scope of the procurement and expected timeline as well as ask questions directly to the ICB team leading on this work. There will be a virtual event taking place 2pm on Wednesday 9th August. If you would be interested in attending, please email mstanbrook@nhs.net (cc'ing Caitlin.dyke@nhs.net) and further details will be provided in due course. Additional information: The services described above are healthcare services falling within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations") which are not subject to the full regime of the Regulations but is instead governed by the "Light Touch Regime" contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77).