Home Visiting Service covering South Eastern Hampshire and Fareham and Gosport population only

Following the placement of a Prior Information Notice to the market Hampshire, Southampton and Isle of Wight CCG, Covering South Eastern Hampshire and Fareham and Gosport population only are awarding a contract to Badgerswood Surgery, Swan Medical Group, Vine Medical Group, Oaks Healthcare, The Elms Practice, Highlands Practice, Centre Practice, Stubbington Medical Practice and Willow Group for the provision of Home Visiting Service. For a period of 3 years with optional 2 year extension period. The total contract value across the 9 Providers for the maximum potential contract duration of 5 years is £6,353,235.00

Where possible the service provider will deploy a multi-professional work force, which includes new and emerging Primary Care Network roles, to ensure a skill mix which would include GPs, Nurses, Paramedics, Health Care Assistants and other professionals appropriate to meet the needs of the patient population in line with core GMS. It is expected this will include an appropriately qualified clinical team led by doctors. Patients will be treated by the clinician best equipped to meet their needs (especially at periods of peak demand). The service model should be integrated with the patients registered practice to provide wrap around care where required.

The aims of the service are to provide visits to patients earlier in the day than General practice is otherwise able to do. This is to prevent avoidable hospital admissions due to patients feeling unable to wait, and where patients do require a hospital admission; as a result this should happen earlier in the day and prevent the patient having to stay in overnight unnecessarily. The service should also provide sustainability to general practice.