PRJ-1004 City and Hackney CCG Primary Care Clinical Support Services

Concepts

• nhs city
• health and social work
• hackney
• primary care clinical support services
• aim of the service
• facilitation service
• prj-1004 city
• clinical information
• hackney ccg
• primary care

Location

London Borough of Hackney and City of London

Description

The aim of the service is to provide a comprehensive primary care clinical information and facilitation service for NHS City and Hackney CCG in conjunction with all GP Practices to monitor service deliver and improve clinical outcomes for patients in primary care. City and Hackney CCG is undergoing a merger with 6 other CCGs on 1-Apr-2021 and is intending to issue a short extension (12 months) to all contracts expiring on 31-Mar-2021 to provide continuity during the merger. This is under regulation 72(b)(i) and 72(b)(ii) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 because a change of contractor cannot be made for technical reasons and would cause significant inconvenience for the CCG."

Total Quantity or Scope

Primary Care Information and Facilitation aims to provide a comprehensive primary care clinical information and facilitation service for NHS City and Hackney Clinical Commissioning Group in conjunction with all GP Practices to improve clinical outcomes for patients in primary care. The service provides detailed support including on-site teaching and facilitation programmes to improve quality across practices uptake of clinical guidelines, design and facilitation of templates for clinical systems and decision support tools. Supporting practices with implementation and audits. The service will provide dashboards, statistical analysis and interpretation of clinical data to meet the requirements of NHS City and Hackney Clinical Commissioning Group as commissioners. The Referral Form Management aims to centralise referral form management across health and social care services in City and Hackney in order to improve consistency, quality, efficiency and effectiveness of referrals.

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 85000000 - Health and social work services

Indicators

Legal Justification

City Hackney CCG is being merged with 6 other CCGs to form North East London CCG (NEL CCG) on 1-April-2021. To ensure smooth transition to NEL CCG the CCG is extending all contracts for 12 months where continuity of provider is deemed necessary. The CCG is publishing this notice to signal its intention to directly award a contract, on the grounds that continuing to use the original contractors is necessary during the merger for technical reasons and that changing contractor at this time would cause significant inconvenience to the CCG (PCR 2015, Reg 72(b)(i) and (b)(ii). While consideration has been given to the Coronavirus pandemic response 32(2)(c) is not being cited as the primary reason for the extension. The CCG believes that this supplier is already integrated with other services in East London, and has strong links with local health, social care, community and voluntary organisations. This enables it to deliver services in an integrated way and provide holistic care that meets the needs of local patients. The intended contract extension is for 12 months, to March 2022, and by that time NEL CCG will have been able to complete the merger process, understand where it has multiple contracts for the same services, and make decisions on competitive tendering options for future consolidated contracts as a new organisation.

Other Information

£155,000 for 2019/20 £183,875 for 2020/21 £183,875 for 2021/22