Community Extended Minor Surgery Services (Sandwell & West Birmingham CCG)

The Right Care Right Here (RCRH) Partnership is Sandwell & West Birmingham CCGs vehicle of delivery for meeting our local health challenges. It is a well established partnership between the CCG, the two local authorities and other health services, formed to achieve major transformational change. Part of this focuses on expanding the level of provision of services in community settings, bringing appropriate elements of care closer to home and making more consistent the range, availability and quality of services in primary and community settings. Currently the scope and availability of Extended Minor Surgery services in Community settings is varied when comparing Sandwell to West Birmingham. The commissioning of this service will ensure consistency across the CCG footprint with all patients registered with a Sandwell & West Birmingham CCG practice being able to access the full range of Extended Minor Surgical procedures.

The Community Extended Minor Surgery service will provide a range of high quality cost effective procedures which are beyond the scope of core activities within primary care services.

The objectives are:

•High quality locally accessible services which extend choice for patients

• Good clinical outcomes for patients

The extended minor surgery service will offer assessment, diagnosis and treatment for a range of conditions as detailed below in accordance with relevant guidelines, pathways and evidence-based practice.

The provider must be able to provide all of the following procedures:

The contract period will be 3 years with an option to extend for a further 2 years

Additional information: The services to which this advertisement relates fall within Part B of Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations. Neither placement of this advertisement nor any other indication shall be taken to mean that the Contracting Authority intends to hold itself bound by any of these Regulations, save those applicable to Part B Services.

How to Apply:

• i)Register on the portal at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk (registration and use of the website is free of charge).

ii)Once registered, express interest by:

• a)logging-in to the MLCSU eTendering portal,

b)selecting response to advert and ITT (Project_318)

• c)select Open Access ITT,
• d)search for and access ITT Community Extended Minor Surgery (ITT_301) and view details,
• e)click on Express Interest link.

• iii)Once you have expressed interest, access the My ITTs page where you can download documentation & construct your reply as instructed.

If you require technical support in submitting your expression of interest, please contact the BravoSolution help-desk on 0800 368 4850 or e-mail help@bravosolution.co.uk

Please refer to OJEU notice ref: 136486-2015 for further information, link below: http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:136486-2015:TEXT:EN:HTML

Please note the OJEU notice takes precedence over all notices including this one.