Referral Triage Services - NHS Birmingham Cross City CCG

Clinical Triage is a way of monitoring; directing and appropriately managing patient referrals with the aim of ensuring that the most clinically effective and cost effective outcomes are achieved, whilst at the same time respecting patients’ rights to choice (as defined in the NHS Constitution). NHS Birmingham CrossCity CCG is looking to commission a twelve month pilot to deliver referral triage services for all elective referrals from primary care from April 2016. The outcome of the pilot is to test proof of concept which is driven by impact on patient experience, data collection and clinical quality.

The service must have the ability to receive and check referral documents from NHS Birmingham CrossCity CCG member practices in line with commissioner specifications, thresholds and referral guidelines ensuring high quality and consistent clinical assessment service in line with the information detailed in the data recording and reporting section of this specification. The service must work within the following parameters:

Location of Provider Premises:

The location of the providers premises from which this service is to be delivered must be in the geographical area of the West Midlands. This is because the service forms a critical part of the on-going patient care and integration with existing local care systems will be an important part of the evaluation.

The pilot contract duration will be 12 months with an option to extend for a further 6 months.

Additional information: Candidates wishing to be considered must register and submit their bid submission through the portal as follows:

Providers must submit their completed ITT by 17:00 on 11th December 2015.

The services to which this advertisement relates are for Health Services and therefore remain within the scope of Part B of Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (as amended). Neither placement of this advertisement nor any other indication shall be taken to mean that the Contracting Authority intends to hold itself bound by any Regulations, save those applicable to Part B services.