GP Clinical Assessment Service - Cat 3 & 4
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The South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust intends to award a contract using the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 for a GP Clinical Assessment Service - Category 3 & 4. This service aims to enable urgent care line calls to be assessed by GPs over the phone, significantly reducing unnecessary ambulance dispatches. The contract is set to be awarded via the Direct Award Process C, with an initial mandatory standstill period until 19th February 2025.
The current contract ends on 31st March 2025, with a new contract running from 1st April 2025 to 31st March 2026, and an option to extend for a further year to 31st March 2027. This tender provides substantial opportunities for SMEs, particularly those specialised in healthcare services. Businesses providing GP assessment and consultancy services would be well-suited to compete, given the need to support urgent care lines and reduce ambulance demand.
Winning this contract would aid the successful supplier in forming a strategic partnership with the NHS and demonstrate their capability in delivering critical health services across the South Central region.
Intention to award a Contract under THE HEALTH CARE SERVICES (PROVIDER SELECTION REGIME) REGULATIONS 2023 - Direct Award Process C for the provision of a GP Lead Clinical Assessment Service for Category 3 & 4 - to allow for calls to the Urgent Care phone line to be assessed by GPs over the telephone, reducing the need for dispatching ambulances in cases where the medical need would be better served by a different clinical solution. Achieving an 80% downgrade rate.
As part of the South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS) remit to operate the 999 call service, it was identified that ambulances were being sent to patients that didn't need them, which otherwise could have been downgraded over the phone, reducing the need to dispatch an ambulance unnecessarily, and reducing the pressure and demand on the use of ambulances. A subcontract was set up between SCAS and their subcontractor to provide a GP Clinical Assessment Service to support this. The existing contract is due to expire on 31st March 2025. The contract has shown a huge benefit to SCAS - downgrade rates of 80%. As a result of the success of the contract, an additional one year contract is required from 1st April 2025 to 31st March 2026, with an option to extend for a further additional year. to 31st March 2027. If the contract expires with no replacement, SCAS and the public would experience a huge drop in service level, and an unnecessary dispatching of ambulances, putting further pressure on ambulance resources.
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