Staffordshire wide Integrated Urgent Care Service. Market Engagement event

NHS Stafford and Surrounds CCG, Cannock Chase CCG, East Staffordshire CCG, South East Staffordshire and Seisdon Peninsular CCG, North Staffordshire CCG, Stoke on Trent CCG are intending to undertake in the future a formal procurement for Staffordshire wide Integrated Urgent Care Service across the aforementioned CCG catchment areas.

The proposed service is intended to provide an Integrated Urgent Care Service for the population of Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent consisting of:

Core Services

Change to Primary Care OOH.

The CAS will include direct access for health and care professionals. This type of access will be available for emergency ambulance professionals and care home professionals and certain community health professionals initially and is likely to be rolled out to other professionals where opportunity exists for alternatives to A&E attendance. This type of CAS access is known as star 5 or star 6 etc. elsewhere.

Additional Services Subject to final CCG confirmation

Developmental Services (Subject to final CCG confirmation)

We plan a multi-year contract and intend to commission services developments that will be phased in after the first 12 months with the aim of incorporating other community based urgent care services into the IUC such as rapid response services. We also intend to expand and further develop the CAS.

Core service specifications will be compliant with the National Integrated Urgent Care Service Specification. (https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Integrated-Urgent-Care-Service-Specification.pdf)

Please note that within Staffordshire we will be consulting on the future Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) configuration across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent OT. IUC providers will be expected to provide services fully integrated with future UTCs including direct booking of UTC slots from 111 / CAS.

In line with the NHS Long Term Plan, we intend that by no later than 2023, the CAS will function as the single point of access for patients, carers and health professionals for integrated urgent care and discharge from hospital care.

The final full-service specification will be published as part of a future procurement process around April 2019

Additional information: The market engagement event relating to this service will be held end February or early March 2019 in Stafford. Interested parties are asked to express their interest via e-mail to r.klimczak@nhs.net and Samantha.yates6@nhs.net stating your Company name and contact details for details of the venue to be sent to.

Should a procurement be undertaken, this will be done via the Midlands and Lancashire CSU e-procurement portal hosted by Bravo Solutions. 'Light Touch Regime' services: The future procurement will be for clinical services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations('Regulations'). Accordingly, the contracting authorities are only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authorities are not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. The procedure which the contracting authorities are following is set out in the MOI. As the CCG is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply to this procurement.