Primary Dental Care Services Procurement for NHS England (Central Midlands)

NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (Arden and GEM CSU) on behalf of NHS England (Central Midlands) is carrying out a procurement exercise for the commissioning of Primary Dental Care Services. The following lots are available under this procurement: — Lot 1 A Kettering x 4000 UDA; — Lot 1 B Kettering x 4000 UDA — Lot 1 C Kettering x 3000 UDA; — Lot 1 D Kettering x 1000 UDA; — Lot 1 E Kettering x 1000 UDA; — Lot 2 A Corby x 4100 UDA; — Lot 2 B Corby x 4100 UDA; — Lot 2 C Corby x 2100 UDA; — Lot 3 Bishops Stortford x 10266 UDA; — Lot 4 Leighton Buzzard x 11024 UDA; — Lot 5 Marsh Road, Luton x 14000 UDA; — Lot 6 Bedford 8-8 x 25000 UDA; — Lot 7 Luton 8-8 x 25000 UDA — Lot 8 Anxiety Management (Bedfordshire) x 2500 COTs. Interest may be expressed for 1 or more lots. The 8-8 model of care for General Dental Services (Luton and Bedford) is designed to offer routine dental care as well as urgent care for patients not linked to a dental practice. The service will be expected to encourage patients into routine care either at each site or with other local dental practices. The Luton and Bedford 8-8 sites will be open from 8:00-20:00, 7 days a week, 365 days of the year including all Bank Holidays. When local practices are closed the 2 sites will provide the Out of Hours service for Bedfordshire. It is expected that the practices will work closely with A & E Departments, other urgent care providers, the 111 service, local dental practices and the Area Team to ensure patients can access dental services promptly and appropriately. The Area Team in conjunction with the Local Professional Network is reviewing the management of anxious patients locally. Lot 8 will deliver a Service in Bedfordshire designed to complement the work of general dental practitioners and the Community Dental Service in the management of anxious patients. The specification will focus on the assessment of patients referred to the Service which may or may not result in a course of treatment under sedation. Anxiety Management (Bedfordshire): — Bidders to submit cost per case for assessment and separate cost per case to assess and treat; — Contractor will be expected to work closely with the LPN as new guidelines are expected in 2015; — Reserves the right to change the specification. The following conditions precedent will apply to this procurement. CQC: a) Appropriate CQC Registration is in place for the contract start date. b) The organisations CQC registration does not have any conditions attached that would affect the delivery of the services being Tendered. — Registration or updated profile on SID4GOV within the last 12 months — A Dunn and Bradstreet registration number and rating that is low and does not place restrictions on trading. — Data protection registration Number. — Government Information Toolkit registration to Level 2 within 3 months of the start of the contract.

Additional information: NHS England's over-arching aims for primary dental service provision are: — to improve oral health and to reduce inequalities in health and wellbeing; — to improve access to NHS dental services and to improve the experience of all service users; — to develop excellent integrated and more localised services; — to ensure that key evidence based, preventive, consistent messages and interventions are communicated and delivered by all; — to ensure access to unscheduled and elective dental care is available to all; — to provide evidence informed care according to identified need; — to promote choice by service users, by ongoing consultation and engagement.

The opportunity can be found on https://gemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk — pqq_107 — Primary Dental Care Services Procurement for NHS England Central Midlands.