Published date: 10 May 2022
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Contract summary
Industry
Health services - 85100000
Location of contract
East Midlands
Value of contract
£0
Procurement reference
Northants - 001
Published date
10 May 2022
Approach to market date
13 June 2022
Contract start date
12 December 2022
Contract end date
11 December 2025
Procedure type
Other: Any Qualified Provider (AQP)
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
NHS Northamptonshire CCG (the Authority) is seeking to procure a Community Cataract Surgery service in Northamptonshire. The procurement will be undertaken as an AQP (any qualified provider) process.
The contract will be a three (3) year period commencing in December 2022.
The Provider will:
• Deliver high quality and value for money cataract services that reflect the best practice guidance set out by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Getting it Right First Time and the NHSE National Eye Care Recovery and Transformation Programme (NECRTP) and NICE.
• Maintain capacity to support the overall commissioned activity of the ICS, thus ensuring delivery of the national 18-week referral to treatment (RTT) cataract pathway and reduction in waiting list backlogs.
• Maintain access to cataract services in accessible hospital and community settings, that provides care closer to home, improves choice, delivers greater consistency and equity in access to services across the localities within Northamptonshire. Please note that all sites must be located within Northamptonshire.
The key objectives of the service are:
• To ensure the provision of safe and effective cataract service provision to NHS patients
• To free up outpatient and primary eye care capacity for patients at higher risk of sight loss
• To ensure the delivery of training for the next generation of consultant ophthalmologists through equitable delivery of training to NHS trainees in all providers of NHS cataract surgery
• To ensure Service Users with urgent post-surgery issues and complications can be advised and managed by the Provider's own surgical ophthalmic team with any requirement and resource for other providers to support this clearly agreed.
• To achieve, and drive improvements in, the NECRTP high flow cataract pathway.
The procurement is anticipated to go live in June 2022 via the ProContract (Proactis) e-system where all procurement documents will be made available. Providers who do not have an account can register at the link here, https://procontract.due-north.com/Register
Please send your organisation's expression of interest to nelcsu.procurementnorthants@nhs.net The Commissioners should not be approached directly for information. Please forward all enquiries to the above email address.
More information
Spend profile
| Financial year | Budget |
|---|---|
| 2022/2023 | £0 |
| 2023/2024 | £0 |
| 2024/2025 | £0 |
About the buyer
Address
Francis Crick House
Summerhouse Road Moulton Park
Northampton
NN3 6BF
England
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