PIN - Market Engagement Exercise for the Provision of GP Services (APMS) at Whitehouse Health Centre, Western Expansion Area, Milton Keynes

NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands on behalf of NHS Milton Keynes CCG wish to conduct a Market Engagement Exercise for the Provision of GP Services (APMS) at Whitehouse Health Centre, Western Expansion, Milton Keynes.

Currently there is no GP cover for this area of new growth. This facility will support the CCG's primary care vision of place based care for total population health management and enable primary care to work at scale across the STP. As this is a new service the patient list will be starting from zero but it is estimated the list size will grow to approximately 22,500 over the duration of the contract.

The services must be GP led and provided by GPs, nurses and other clinical professionals or healthcare workers. The successful Provider will be expected to:

• Provide primary care services which are accessible, convenient and responsive
• Design services around the needs of patients and carers, ensuring they are offered more choice and a greater say in their treatment
• Reduce unplanned admissions to hospital; the opening hours of the facility will enable patients to seek urgent care from a GP or Nurse practitioner
• Offer extended hours 8am - 8pm, 7 days a week, 365 days a year to registered and non-registered patients.
• Provide primary out of hospital, community and appropriate acute services
• Function as a training practice; assisting Buckingham University in offering additional medical training places for both GPs and Nurses.
• Have processes in place to evaluate and continually improve on patient satisfaction
• Have processes in place to engage effectively with the local communities
• Participate in National Quality and Outcomes Framework

(QOF)

• Be eligible for and expected to provide all Enhanced Services, remunerated in line with the relevant Directions as specified by the commissioner on an annual basis.
• Promote healthy living with the aim of tackling the underlying causes of ill health.

The suggested contract duration is 8 years; with the option to extend for a further 5+2 years (total contract duration of 15 years) (this is subject to approval from NHSE Commercial Executive Group).

The premises is a purpose built, leasehold, health centre practice that spans 3 floors. The building will comprise of 17 consulting rooms, 6 treatment rooms and will offer outpatient and specialist clinics, a commercial pharmacy and lettable leased community rooms. It is envisaged that the practice will need this space on a phased approach depending on the list size growth.

These opportunities will be open to the entire market, including the current providers. It is intended that the tender will be published in June 2019. The services must be fully operational on the expected service commencement date of 1st April 2020.

Additional information: The Commissioner (NHS Milton Keynes CCG) is seeking market input to support the development of its proposals prior to publication of the formal procurement opportunity. If you wish to contribute, could you please register against (Tender/Quote) 34212 - PIN notice for Provision of GP Services (APMS) at Whitehouse Health Centre, Milton Keynes in EU Supply and complete the short questionnaire. Please provide any rationale behind your responses within the questionnaire. This information will be kept confidential and considered in designing the scope of the service.

An expression of interest in this PIN will not automatically entitle involvement in any future procurement exercise. The subsequent procurement will be advertised separately and all organisations wanting to participate will need to respond to the procurement advertisement when published.

Process of expressing interest:

This market engagement exercise is being facilitated through the Arden & GEM, EU-Supply e-procurement portal please register and log in at: https://uk.eu-supply.com/login.asp?B=agcsu

Please register against: Portal project reference: (Tender/Quote) 34212 - PIN notice for Provision of GP Services (APMS) at Whitehouse Health Centre , Western Expansion Area, Milton Keynes to complete the short market assessment questionnaire. Completed questionnaires will need to be submitted by the closing date of 2pm Friday 1st March 2019.

There will be a Market Engagement Event (MEE) in May 2019 for further engagement on the service. Further information will be circulated to delegates after the Market Assessment Questionnaire process closes at 2pm on Friday 1st March 2019.