NHS West Kent Dermatology Service

NHS West Kent CCG (the Commissioner) invites suitably qualified and experienced provider(s) to bid for the provision of Level 3 and 4 Dermatology Services for West Kent patients. The service is expected to undertake a full range of Dermatology treatments.

The CCG is seeking to commission the service with the following objectives:

-Deliver a high quality clinical dermatology care that supports patients to live their lives as fully as possible. -Actively helps improve dermatology skills and competencies in primary care more generally.

-Supports and educates patients to self-manage their skin conditions and prevent complications.

The service will deliver diagnosis, treatment and management of a range of dermatological conditions across community and secondary care settings. The service will be consultant led but not exclusively consultant delivered, ensuring joint working across all levels and referrals pathways. The level 3 service will deal with all skin problems that cannot be managed by a GP or conditions where GPs may need advice such as: -Skin lesions pre malignant or of an uncertain nature.

-Suspected BCCs- assessment, excision, onward referral.

The level 4 service will include those conditions that can only be undertaken by secondary care teams and will include the 2ww pathway.

The Commissioner is supported in this project by NHS South East CSU (the CSU) and its procurement partner NHS Commercial Solutions (NHSCS), which is managing this procurement.

Further details are in the Memorandum Of Information (MOI) which is available from the attachments area below.

The MOI gives details of:

• the Procurement objectives
• the Commissioner’s service requirements
• the Procurement process, including timelines
• the Procurement commercial framework
• the Procurement governance and administration requirements

Additional information: Bidders should download the attached Memorandum Of Information (MOI) for further information.

This procurement is being conducted using the Bravo eSourcing portal. Details of how to register on Bravo and how to access the procurement within Bravo are in the attached document "How to apply for this procurement". This procurement is identified on Bravo as "NHS West Kent Dermatology Service".