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Published 08 Jan 2018

Community Minor Surgery in Northamptonshire

NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit · United Kingdom

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Closing date
23 Feb 2018
Buyer type
Health

Description

NHS Corby and NHS Nene CCG’s are looking to commission a community based Minor Surgery service aimed at delivering clinically effective, appropriate, convenient and easy to access care closer to patients. The aim is to deliver patient satisfaction through a high quality and responsive service by reducing waiting times for assessment and treatment. The community service will ensure efficient use of resources via a cost effective service model and contribute to the system wide ambition to ensure Right Care Right Time 1st time. Providers are expected to recognise that high quality health care is multi-disciplinary and should be delivered through good working relationships with other partners. The service will be expected: • To receive referrals from GP’s in relation to patients with conditions as laid out in the service (see below). • To provide a clinical assessment of all patients referred to the service for the management of conditions as listed below. • To give clear support and advice to the patient during the course of treatment. • To provide an outcome summary to the patient’s GP once the course of treatment has been completed. • To help reduce the number of referrals to secondary care, where appropriate. • To take responsibility for undertaking audits on patient satisfaction The aim is to commission equitable access to a wider range of community based surgery services to the population of Northamptonshire. This service is for patients referred from other practices who would otherwise have been referred to hospital as the referring practices do not have the appropriate DES in place. The practice providing this service will only treat patients referred from other practices. The patient pathway will cover initial assessment, procedures as identified (see attachment), post-operative wound care, pathology and follow-up. The contract will be for I year commencing on 1st April 2016 with an option to extend for a further year. Budget: £52,480

If you would like to express an interest in this opportunity, please email [email protected] by no later than 4.00pm on Monday 5th October 2015.

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