Urgent Dental Care In & Out of Hours plus Call Handling

Greater Manchester Health & Social Care Partnership, are hosting a market engagement event to discuss the proposed procurement of Urgent Dental Care In & Out of Hours plus Call Handling for Greater Manchester. Included within this shall be the consideration of options for the development of a high quality and effective service for the population of Greater Manchester, in line with emerging national guidance and to meet local need.

This facilitated event will primarily focus on, but not limited to:

Greater Manchester Health & Social Care Partnership is committed to improving services and has an opportunity to review, further develop and re-commission the current services. General Dental Practices, community dental service and current providers of urgent care are cordially invited to attend and contribute to the discussions, and help inform the future strategy.

Market Engagement Exercise

Greater Manchester Health & Social Care Partnership wishes to invite views from potential providers on the potential service models for the delivery of Urgent Dental Care In & Out of Hours plus Call Handling in Greater Manchester and is undertaking a market engagement exercise.

The event will be held on 6 September 2016 at 3 Piccadilly Place Manchester M1 3BN from 5 – 7pm.

If your organisation would like to attend the market engagement event please register an interest on the Proactis website: https://www.proactisplaza.com/SupplierPortal/?CID=NECS and navigate to NHSE15 Urgent Dental Care In & out Of Hours plus Call Handling in Greater Manchester.

Please note that the deadline for registering to attend the event is 5pm 1 September 2016.

Please note that all communications for this event will be conducted via the Proactis portal.

It is free to register on the portal, which can be accessed at any time of day. Should potential providers have any queries a dedicated helpdesk is available and can be contacted via email: http://proactis.kayako.com/suppliernetwork/Core/Default/Index. The helpdesk is open Monday to Friday 9am to 5:30pm.

Please note that this facility allows the provider to express an interest only in delivering this service, it is not a Pre-Qualification Process.