NHS South Warwickshire CCG

Westgate House, Market St

Warwick

CV34 4DE

UK

Contact person: Richard Ward

E-mail: richard.ward11@nhs.net

Main address: https://www.southwarwickshireccg.nhs.uk/

Address of the buyer profile: https://www.southwarwickshireccg.nhs.uk/

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Community Ophthalmology Service (South Warwickshire CCG)

NHS South Warwickshire CCG is undertaking a procurement for the provision of a
Community Ophthalmology Service.
The contract duration will be 3 years (36 months) with an option to extend for a further 2 years
(24 months).

The CCG wish to commission a community-based ophthalmology service for patients registered with a South Warwickshire GP who present with:
• defined acute eye conditions
• defined chronic conditions
Patients will be directly referred to this service for triage and where possible, patients will be assessed and provided with the appropriate treatment/advice in a single visit. Referrals will be accepted from a South Warwickshire GP, optometrist, A&E Department, Eye Casualty or 111. (Triage tool to be agreed with the commissioner.)
The service will comprise of three main tiers, which are covered within the service specification, but can be delivered by multiple organisations with partnership or subcontracting arrangements, or by a single provider for all tiers.
Providers are responsible for coordinating partnership or sub-contracting arrangements
between themselves. Service delivery needs to be integrated and seamlessly delivered to
patients.
Reporting needs to be coordinated and presented centrally as per reporting requirements set out in the NHS standard contract section 6.
The service will have a suitable level of clinical delivery, supervision and leadership, and will be consultant-led. This means a consultant will be accountable for the delivery of the service, available and contactable when necessary and will retain overall responsibility while the service is open.
All new referrals will be triaged by appropriately skilled clinicians (in the view of the lead
consultant) who will signpost the patient to the most appropriate service or pathway for
treatment. This triage function will also be consultant led and therefore by definition, the
consultant will have oversight and be accountable for the safe and accurate delivery of all
aspects of the service.
The provider will work to best practice as published nationally, including, but not limited to, the development of schemes set out by NHSE Elective Care Transformation Programme and other guidance published during the contract term:
1. The development, implementation and management of a standardised cataract referral
forms;
2. The triage of Glaucoma referrals onto the correct care pathway (dependent upon complexity);
3. Implementation of a patient education programme with supporting patient decision aids;
4. Liaison and support to upskill community optometrists optimising diagnostic and referral
quality.
These service developments will be established and implemented during the course of the contract and will be detailed with applicable timescales within the NHS Standard Contract Particulars Section 6d; Service Development Improvement Plan (SDIP).
The provider is expected to continually work with the commissioner to further develop and
improve the service in line with shifting demand.

This contract is subject to renewal: no

List and brief description of conditions:  All professional and/or trade registrations is specified within the tender documentation.

List and brief description of selection criteria:  

Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:  

List and brief description of selection criteria:  

Date:  05/04/2019

Local time:  17:00

Date:  05/04/2019

Local time:  17:00

NHS Arden & GEM CSU is managing this Procurement in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) (the 'Regulations'). The Services being procured are Schedule 3 Services and NHS Arden & GEM CSU and the Commissioner it represents are bound only by those parts of the Regulations applying to the procurement of these services commonly referred to as the Light Touch Regime (LTR).
Whilst the procurement process is being referred to as an Open Process, Schedule 3 of the
Regulations provides the Commissioner with the flexibility to define its own process as long as it complies with the provisions of Regulations 74-76 (inclusive) of the Regulations.
The commissioner may require that the provider and/or members of its supply chain provide guarantees, bonds or other instruments of appropriate security for the due and proper performance of its or their obligations, in such forms as may be required by the commissioner or otherwise prescribed for any such purpose. Please see published documentation for further details.
The CCG/Commissioner reserves the right not to award the contract in whole or in part and/or
to withdraw the procurement at any stage and that it shall not have any liability for any bid
costs.

NHS South Warwickshire CCG

Warwick

UK

NHS South Warwickshire CCG

Warwick

UK

NHS South Warwickshire CCG

Warwick

UK