Public procurement notice: Modification Of A Contract/Concession During Its Term
Published: 2020-04-07
Buyer: NHS South West London Clinicial Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services

Technical requirements: The contracting authority decided to conduct a competitive procurement exercise to enable identification of a lead provider who is most capable of delivering the requirements in the MCP specification from April 2017.
• realisation of the CCGs ambitions around transforming primary care, specifically; enabling achievement of the 17 specifications set out in the London Strategic Commissioning Framework for Primary Care, development of collaborative working between General Practices and empowerment of GPs within their role of care coordinator details available at: https://www.england.nhs.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2015/03/lndn-prim-care-doc.pdf
• ensure that all patients across the borough have access to a range of local out of hospital services which meet their needs;
• facilitate the development of joined up care pathways which enable patients to remain healthy at home for as long as possible;
• address existing inequalities in the delivery of enhanced primary care services across the borough;
• provision of a platform around which other out of hospital services and partner agencies such as mental health, social care and the voluntary sector can be coordinated and integrated;
• further the development of existing programmes of joint working between primary care, community services and other out of hospital care providers.
Delivery of over 73 000 additional primary care appointments by GP practices in Wandsworth, including in and out of core hours appointments, children’s specific appointments, reserved appointments for NHS 111 and Emergency Departments to book into. Appointments can be nurse or GP and the number each practice is funded to provide is proportionate to their list size.
Delivery of follow up care for stable patients in primary care, following discharge from hospital. Discharge is agreed between secondary and primary care to ensure safe transfer of care.
The Better at Home service already within the MCP is delivered by Age UK Wandsworth and has three key elements: a discharge support service, a voluntary sector navigator and a handy person service.
BHCIC and the Local Authority have agreed to combine their funding and services (Better at Home, Be-a-Friend, Online Shopping) under a single contract awarded to Age UK Wandsworth from April 2020. This will sit under the MCP as an enhanced Better at Home contract.
The increased scope of the service will be resourced with the additional investment into the contract equivalent to GBP 2.17 m per year, worth potential additional GBP 15.16 m across the potential 10 year total contract duration.
Delivery of over 73 000 additional primary care appointments by GP practices in Wandsworth, including in and out of core hours appointments, children’s specific appointments, reserved appointments for NHS 111 and Emergency Departments to book into. Appointments can be nurse or GP and the number each practice is funded to provide is proportionate to their list size.
Delivery of follow up care for stable patients in primary care, following discharge from hospital. Discharge is agreed between secondary and primary care to ensure safe transfer of care.
The Better at Home service already within the MCP is delivered by Age UK Wandsworth and has three key elements: a discharge support service, a voluntary sector navigator and a handy person service.


Winner: Battersea Healthcare CIC