Hounslow Primary Care Contract

NHS Hounslow CCG is contracting with Hounslow Consortium Limited for a single contract of enhanced primary care services. This will bring a range of current primary care components into a single offer. These include the current services in the Out of Hospital Service contracts.

This single contract will reduce the transactional burden on both the CCG and practices, ensuring a broader population health based approach and supporting collaboration across the delivery of care to all patients in the Hounslow area. It will support the consistency of standards across primary care at scale.

The contract focusses primarily on improving the health of patients with complex needs and long term

Additional information: The award of this contract can only be made to a limited pool of providers- at-scale general practice networks ororganisations. NHS Hounslow CCG therefore is contracting with Hounslow Consortium Limited for a single integrated contract.

This single contract will reduce transactional burden on the CCG and practices, ensure a broader population health based approach and supporting collaboration across the delivery of care to all patients in the Hounslow area. The contract focusses primarily on improving the health of patients with complex needs and long termconditions, but also includes other areas of health care. The contract will also support the consistency ofstandards across primary care.

The services included within the contract are mutually dependent upon the core GMS/PMS/APMS Contract. However, many services may require delivery at scale for the benefit of practices and patients, with inter-practice referral arrangements in place. This mutual dependency means that the Hounslow Primary CareContract is commissioned exclusively Hounslow Consortium Limited a legal entity whose membership includes, and who can demonstrate the ability to sub-contract with, NHSHounslow CCG based providers who deliver essential primary medical services to a list of patients under eitherGeneral Medical Services Contract (GMS), Personal Medical Services Contract (PMS) or Alternative ProviderMedical Services Contract (APMS) membership of local list-based providers (APMS).