OPD Pharmacy Dispensing, Home Healthcare Dispensing and Pharmacy Retail Services.

OPD Pharmacy Dispensing, Home Healthcare Dispensing and Pharmacy Retail Services.

Epsom & St Helier NHS Trust welcomes innovative solutions from suitably qualified providers for the provision of OPD Pharmacy Dispensing, Home Healthcare Dispensing and Pharmacy Retail Services. The phasing of the implementation of these services is detailed within the invitation to tender package.

The objective of this contract will be to provide enhanced standards in its Pharmacy Outpatients Offering within a contract for the provision of prescribed medication including the provision of outpatient and home delivery pharmacy dispensing supplies with one provider.

The solutions offered should demonstrate a flexible approach to the delivery of medication and pharmacy and health related supplies to patients. The principal activity during the life of the Contract will be the dispensing of Outpatients Pharmacy prescriptions and ancillary supplies such as home delivery and a near home prescription collection facility. An opportunity to develop on-site retail and beauty supplies also exists.

The Trust is seeking to develop collaboration with a Provider that will support the delivery of the Trust's strategic clinical and operational objectives over a 5 year term (with a 60 months optional extension in increments to be decided by Epsom & St Helier NHS Trust).

It is anticipated that the Contract will provide a number of benefits to the Trust and its patients. It is expected that patients will be able to access their medicines in a timely and convenient manner at a time and place of their choosing. Patients will be able to collect their dispensed medicines following their appointment, or where considered appropriate to meet the patient's needs, have this delivered to another local retail outlet or direct to their home.

The following indicative information for 2014/15 is provided to enable contractors to establish their detailed proposals for the provision of the services:

Total number of transactions – 129,562 per annum.

Estimated value including VAT - £6,444,112 per annum.

During the course of the contract the Trust’s requirements may be subject to change and contractors must have a flexible, partnership working approach. Buildings may open or close throughout the lifetime of the contract, and therefore there is no guarantee of any volume of business.

Enhanced DBS checks are required for all staff delivering services on this contract.

The tender documents for this procurement can be found on www.nhssourcing.co.uk under itt_3357.