Published date: 11 August 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: 24 August 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health services - 85100000

Location of contract

London

Value of contract

£140,000

Procurement reference

28815

Published date

11 August 2017

Closing date

24 August 2017

Contract start date

1 November 2017

Contract end date

31 October 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other:

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The North West London (NWL) Collaboration of Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) commissions healthcare services on behalf of the NWL patients, one of these services consists in providing specialist support to commissioners in policy development and management of requests for treatments not routinely funded by the NHS or funded in line with agreed clinical thresholds/pathways.
The Individual Funding Request (IFR) and Planned Procedures with Threshold (PPwT) service ensure an evidence-based, equitable and standardised process with consistency in decision making across NWL.
The IFR route is suitable only for treatments that fall into the 'not normally funded' category for use in clinically exceptional circumstances and which need to be considered on an individual patient basis. Consisting of assessing, processing and decision making for all IFRs requests received for NWL patients.
To assist this process the public health provision requires Consultants in public health medicine for 1.5 sessions (10 hours) per week to provide public health support with the capacity to deliver the service within budget and given timelines.
The requirements of the IFR service is for the public health provision attend weekly IFR clinical triage, IFR panel training workshops, IFR and Appeal panels. In addition to support the policy development function when patient cohorts are identified, by means of research and completion of evidence reviews.
The CCG is looking to award the contract for a period of 1 year with the option to extend for a further 1 year. The total potential maximum value is £70,000 per annum.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

PUBLIC HEALTH INPUT FOR INDEPENDENT FUNDING REQUEST SERVICE

  • Future opportunity
  • Published 17 July 2017, last edited 17 July 2017

Links

Additional text

Organisations interested in this opportunity should visit the EU Supply e-tendering portal, register or log-in and search for Tender ID 28815.
The closing date for tenders is Noon on 24th August 2017.

About the buyer

Address

Halyard Court, 31 Broadway
Salford
M50 2YR
England

Email

greg_reide@nhs.net