Published date: 20 April 2017

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 19 May 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Miscellaneous health services - 85140000

Location of contract

East Midlands

Value of contract

£120,000

Procurement reference

LINCOLN001-DN259799-10990262

Published date

20 April 2017

Closing date

19 May 2017

Contract start date

26 June 2017

Contract end date

26 June 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other:

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Medicines are the most frequently utilised healthcare intervention in the NHS. The Prescribing and Medicines Optimisation (PMO) Service supports customers, including Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG), NHS England, acute trusts, local authorities and community health trusts, to ensure that medicines are commissioned and prescribed in a safe, legal, evidence based and cost effective way. Medicines optimisation is concerned with maximising quality, outcomes and value for patients from the medicines that they take; it extends into all aspects of the pathway from the prescriber to the patient, to the pharmacy or dispensing practice and encompasses all of the health and social care professionals that may be involved in that patients care.
The Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) is a statutory document that assesses the pharmacy needs of the local population. This includes dispensing services as well as public health and other services that pharmacies may provide. The document is used as the framework for commissioning pharmacy services in a defined area. There is a statutory requirement for each local authority's Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWB) to produce a PNA every three years.

About the buyer

Contact name

Mark Fowell

Address

Orchard House
Orchard Street
Lincoln
LN1 1BA
England

Telephone

+44 1522554044

Email

mark.fowell@lincolnshire.gov.uk

Website

https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk