Community Minor Surgery in Northamptonshire

NHS Corby and NHS Nene CCG’s are looking to commission a community based Minor Surgery service aimed at delivering clinically effective, appropriate, convenient and easy to access care closer to patients.

The aim is to deliver patient satisfaction through a high quality and responsive service by reducing waiting times for assessment and treatment. The community service will ensure efficient use of resources via a cost effective service model and contribute to the system wide ambition to ensure Right Care Right Time 1st time.

Providers are expected to recognise that high quality health care is multi-disciplinary and should be delivered through good working relationships with other partners.

The service will be expected:

The aim is to commission equitable access to a wider range of community based surgery services to the population of Northamptonshire.

This service is for patients referred from other practices who would otherwise have been referred to hospital as the referring practices do not have the appropriate DES in place. The practice providing this service will only treat patients referred from other practices.

The patient pathway will cover initial assessment, procedures as identified (see attachment), post-operative wound care, pathology and follow-up.

The contract will be for I year commencing on 1st April 2016 with an option to extend for a further year.

Budget: £52,480

If you would like to express an interest in this opportunity, please email Rosalind.Carter@ardengemcsu.nhs.uk by no later than 4.00pm on Monday 5th October 2015.