Cannock Minor Injuries Unit

The Cannock Chase Clinical Commissioning Group are seeking applications from suitably qualified and experienced providers to urgently deliver a minor injuries unit at Cannock Hospital. The minor injuries unit was closed in February 2020 as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and there is a need to ensure that services are reinstated as soon as possible. The service will: - Ensure patients have a positive experience of care. - Improve accessibility and flexibility for patients, ensuring care is built around the patients not the services. - Ensure that patients are effectively prioritised, directed and seen by the right clinician and receive the right treatment ensuring that health needs are met in the most appropriate setting. This will include signposting to appropriate alternative services, including minor eye care services, ensuring patients are not re-directed inappropriately to emergency care settings for the management of minor injuries. - Provide consistent clinical assessment of a patients needs at the first point of contact. - In collaboration with other Providers, patients receive a seamless and integrated urgent care response by the MIU that is appropriate to clinical need and supported by care pathways across organisational boundaries. - Promote and support a provision of patient/carer education relating to self-care post visit. The contract will run for 12 months from the service start date which is estimated to be no later than 14th September 2022, with an option to extend for up to a further 12 months. The successful bidder shall be required to mobilise and commence service delivery within a maximum of six weeks from contract award which is estimated around 18th July 2022. The service shall be required to operate from the Cannock Hospital site. Further details of the available facilities shall be made to all bidders via the MLCSU Bravo portal as soon as they are confirmed.

Additional information: Midlands and Lancashire CSU is conducting this procurement exercise on behalf of Cannock Chase Clinical Commissioning Group with whom the successful bidder(s) will enter into contracts for the supply of the services. Any other public sector body wishing to access the contract may do so only with permission from the contracting NHS body. This procurement is for Social and other specific services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations ('Regulations') http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/schedule/3/made. Accordingly, the Contracting Authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/part/2/chapter/3/made The Contracting Authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. The procedure which the Contracting Authority is following is set out in the procurement documents. As the CCG is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply to this procurement. Right to Cancel: The Contracting Authority reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts and does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender, or any tender received, and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this necessary. The Contracting Authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or tenderer in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this Contract Notice, or in the completion or submission of any tender, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed. All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the Contracting Authority reserves the right to change these. Transparency: The Contracting Authority is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and may be required to disclose information received in the course of this procurement under FOIA or the EIR. In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the contracting authority intends to publish procurement documentation and the text of any resulting contractual arrangements, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the Contracting Authority. Any redactions, whether in relation to information requests under FOIA, the EIR or policies on transparency will be in accordance with those grounds prescribed under the Freedom of Information Act. If and when this requirement is offered to tender, this will be done via electronic means using the internet.