Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2016-07-19
Buyer: NHS Ealing Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Region: Outer London - West and North West
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 60130000 | 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 870000 GBP

Technical requirements: Primary Care Patient Transport Service for NHS Ealing Clinical Commissioning Group — Prior Information Notice.
Ealing Clinical Commissioning Group is currently piloting a Primary Care Patient Transport service for patients who face barriers to accessing services in primary care settings because of the lack of appropriate transport and associated support.
The pilot service has been specifically aimed at supporting patients who are elderly/frail or children who have mobility issues or other health problems which restricts their ability to access public transport. The service is for patients who are registered with GPs across the borough of Ealing.
Ealing Clinical Commissioning Group now wish to give prior notification of their intention to re-commission the current Primary Care Patient Transport service and wishes to ascertain market interest in this continued provision.
The Commissioner would like to invite interested potential providers to attend a Prior Information Event at 11:00 on Thursday, 28.7.2016 at NHS Ealing Clinical Commissioning Group, 3
Interested parties are requested to register for this event by 12:00 by Tuesday, 26.7.2016, by emailing the Ealing CCG Primary Care Patient Transport team, on EALCCG.ptproject@nhs.net
To ensure that the future Primary Care Patient Transport service provides the best all round outcomes for service users, the CCG is interested to consider the views and advice of those with experience in the delivery of specialist Primary Care Patient Transport Services.
The CCG has identified a range of patient needs in relation to transport to appointments in primary care. In particular patients who: experience difficulty attending appointments due to lack of transport; are elderly or frail; have mobility or other health problems; and live in geographically isolated parts of the borough.
Having mapped potential demand for this service and established a simple eligibility criteria, the aim is to enable patients to access primary care more easily, encouraging attendance, reducing the need for home visits and reducing the level of activity at secondary care acute providers, in-line with the CCG's Out of Hospital Delivery Strategy.
1.1. For patients and their carers who are registered with GPs in Ealing and meet the agreed eligibility criteria for the Transport Service, to travel to primary care locations for appointments.
1.2. The eligibility criteria for the service are based on whether the patient can be transported without risk to their safety or the safety of others, and whether there is a clinical need for transport based on disability, a lack of mobility or other health problems.
1.3. The Transport Provider shall be responsible for the safe, timely and comfortable transport of patients between their place of residence and the healthcare facility in question and back again.
— Provide care closer to home in line with the Out of Hospital and Whole Systems Integrated Care models.
This service will contribute to the social, health and well-being needs and challenges facing vulnerable elderly patients in respect of loneliness and isolation:
— A resource to make an impact on a patient's health and well-being removing barriers to enable access to healthcare services.