Enhanced Access

Tender description

To improve access to primary care by creating additional capacity Hub access in Wandsworth. The provider will be commissioned as a primary care hub to provide routine appointments meeting a set specification. Lot 1: • Enable patients to access GP appointments 8am to 8pm, 7 days a week through: o Primary care hubs providing routine appointments during evening and weekends or at other times when other GP practices are closed o GP practices providing urgent (where clinically required) appointments within 4 hours during GP Practice usual operational hours • Develop closer working relationships with NHS 111 including supporting the Directory of Service development and ability to directly book appointments. • Enable the Emergency Department at St Georges to book patients at the primary care hubs. • Enable Primary Care Hubs to undertake effective routine consultations with full access to the patient's electronic record. BHCIC intend to award a contract to an existing provider following Direct Award Process C for three years with a 12 month notice of termination from 1/4/2024 to 31/3 2027. This is a cost and volume contract. The expenditure for 2023/24 was £324700, ie expected lifetime value of the contract could be £974100