Digitisation of Lloyd George medical records for GP practices across NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICS

Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care System have been part of the national NHSX teams Acceleration Programme in which they have secured funding to enable Morcambe Bay Clinical Commissioning Group to fully digitise their Lloyd George medical records. This is in accordance with the General Medical Services Contract Reform 2019 to digitise all Lloyd George records in a phased approach across the Integrated Care System footprint by 2023.

Morecambe Bay has funding to fully digitise their Lloyd George medical records to a cloud solution which will not only create efficiencies within General Practice but free up much needed space within the practice. Morcambe Bay Clinical Commissioning Group covers 33 GP Practices with a typical practice size of circa 7,200 patients.

This procurement for Morecambe Bay Clinical Commissioning Group is part of a larger digitisation programme and the first of 5 phases covering the 5 Integrated Care Providers for Lancashire & South Cumbria. There will be potential, where funding becomes available, to roll out to the rest of Lancashire & South Cumbria. This includes a further 200 practices across 4 Trusts and 7 Clinical Commissioning Groups totalling circa 1.3 million records.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care System are leading the procurement on behalf of Clinical Commissioning Groups and Integrated Care Partnerships in Lancashire & South Cumbria. Participating Clinical Commissioning Groups and Integrated Care Partnerships include:

NHS Morecambe Bay CCG

NHS Greater Preston Clinical Commissioning Group

NHS Chorley and South Ribble Clinical Commissioning Group

NHS Blackburn with Darwen Clinical Commissioning Group

NHS East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group

NHS Blackpool Clinical Commissioning Group

NHS Fylde and Wyre Clinical Commissioning Group

NHS West Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group

Additional information: Interested providers will be able to view this notice via the 'current tenders' list on the e-procurement system In-Tend, available on the following link: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home

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The services are deemed to be subject to the full regime of current EU procurement legislation and as such this tender will be conducted in accordance with, and governed by, the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. This contract will therefore be awarded in accordance with the provisions applicable in Section 5 (sub-section 7) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.

The contracting authority intends to observe the provisions and 10 day standstill period described in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Unsuccessful Bidders and applicants will receive scores and reasons for the decision, including the characteristics and relative advantages of the winning bid and the reasons why the Bidder/applicant was unsuccessful. Deadlines for lodging appeals should be in accordance with the Regulations.