Notice Information
Notice Title
Community Pharmacy Outreach Service - Harbottle / Pharmacy Outreach
Notice Description
Community Pharmacy Outreach Service - Medicines Delivery/Collection Services enhanced service has been designed to support patients registered at Harbottle GP Surgery. This contract has been awarded under the urgent circumstances provision of the Provider Selection Regime (PSR). This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and Procurement Regulations 2024 do not apply to this award. Do to urgent need, an implied contract has been in place since 01 April 2025 but contracts were signed off September 2025.
Lot Information
Lot 1
Community Pharmacy Outreach Service - Medicines Delivery/Collection Services enhanced service has been designed to support patients registered at Harbottle GP Surgery. Following the closure of Harbottle Surgery the dispensing and medicine collection implications for patients that were registered with the Harbottle surgery as a branch surgery now operates from Harbottle on a temporary basis and this service is to support the patients who are seen in Harbottle. The pharmacy will provide a medicines collection service for patients, based at the GP surgery in Harbottle at designated times in the week. Additional information: The pharmacy must ensure that they have mechanisms in place to provide medicine collection services to patients wishing to collect them from Harbottle GP Surgery. The address of the premises from which the medicines will be collected is: GP Branch Surgery, Village Hall, Harbottle, Morpeth, Northumberland, NE65 7DG The session will be provided between 3-5pm on Thursday afternoons only. The pharmacy will enable patients to collect their medicines (dispensed from The provider) from the Harbottle surgery site on Thursday afternoon between 3.30pm and 4.30pm every week. The pharmacy will deliver the services in conjunction with the Heads of terms with NHS Property Services. The pharmacy will operate under the Pharmaceutical Regulations 2013. The pharmacy will deploy 2 suitably qualified staff to operate the medicines collection service. The pharmacy will maintain patient confidentiality in operations. The Pharmacy will comply with the Data Protection Act. The pharmacy will not leave medications at the village hall and will return any uncollected medicines to the provider. Monitoring - Quarterly monitoring meetings will take place between the Primary Care Commissioning Manager of NHS England and the Regional Pharmacy Experience Manager of The provider. This will include looking at relevant data (e.g. usage, delivery/business continuity risks).
Procurement Information
Boots (UK) Ltd is the only pharmacy in Rothbury/Harbottle, the closest other/next pharmacy is at 9.7 miles
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-0599ad
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/056321-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
85 - Health and social work services
-
- CPV Codes
85149000 - Pharmacy services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £7,800 Under £100K
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 12 Sep 20255 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 31 Mar 202510 months ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- NHS NORTH EAST AND NORTH CUMBRIA INTEGRATED CARE BOARD
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- nencicb.procurement@nhs.net
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- SUNDERLAND
- Postcode
- SR5 3XB
- Post Town
- Sunderland
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLC North East (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLC4 Northumberland, Durham and Tyne & Wear
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLC44 Sunderland
- Delivery Location
- TLC21 Northumberland
-
- Local Authority
- Sunderland
- Electoral Ward
- Castle
- Westminster Constituency
- Washington and Gateshead South
Further Information
Notice URLs
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