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title: "Home Visiting Service covering South Eastern Hampshire and Fareham and Gosport population only"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-02b4db"
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# Home Visiting Service covering South Eastern Hampshire and Fareham and Gosport population only

Buyer: NHS SOUTHAMPTON, HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT CLINICAL COMMISSIONING GROUP  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-02b4db

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## Summary

The NHS Southampton, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Clinical Commissioning Group is awarding a contract for a Home Visiting Service aimed at the South Eastern Hampshire and Fareham and Gosport populations. This contract is part of the services sector, specifically under general-practitioner services, with a total value of £6,353,235 over a maximum duration of five years, which includes an initial three-year term with an optional two-year extension. The procurement process is at the award stage, having recently concluded on 30th June 2021, after a limited procurement method was employed without prior publication of a call for competition.

This tender presents significant opportunities for healthcare providers, especially those with capability in general-practitioner services and integrated healthcare delivery. Businesses that are well-suited to compete include GP practices, primary care groups, and organisations specialising in community healthcare services, as the model emphasises a multi-professional workforce comprising GPs, nurses, paramedics, and healthcare assistants. The successful delivery of the service aims to enhance patient care quality and reduce hospital admissions, thereby positively impacting community health outcomes and promoting business growth within the healthcare sector.

## Notice

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 PS6,353,235.00 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.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

Following the placement of the PIN, Hampshire, Southampton and Isle of Wight CCG, Covering South Eastern Hampshire and Fareham and Gosport population only award of 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 Hove Visiting Service. For a period of 3 years with optional 2 year extension period. Service Description The service will provide access to a home visiting service on weekdays during core hours (08.00am - 18.30pm). This service will be delivered at scale across the agreed grouping of practices which has been agreed locally based on geography and patient needs. 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. Please see attached service specification for full details of the service requirements. - This delivery of this service is most suitably delivered by the Badgerswood Surgery, Swan Medical Group, Vine Medical Group, Oaks Healthcare, The Elms Practice, Highlands Practice, Centre Practice, Stubbington Medical Practice and Willow Group providers for the following reasons: Patient Needs and quality: * To ensure full access to patient notes and records is available ensuring the best and safest care can be provided to patients * To provide continuity of care by working as part of the patients usual GP practice and the wider PCN workforce * Patients already contact their practice for their primary care needs, so this ensues no further step is required from the patient to access a home visit * Ability to utilise the PCN workforce is critical to the proactive care to be provided to patients. * Improve public confidence in general practice availability, * A skill mix of staff should decrease GP time required for Home Visiting and release them back into practice * Contracting for the whole population so that unwarranted variations in care are minimised * Contracting for the whole population so that scale efficiencies can be delivered * Workforce flexibilities through scale with practices working across PCNs * Building on the current general practice workforce to ensure local knowledge and relationship benefits are maximised and investment can support the sustainability of general practice as the bedrock of local community services * Patients visited earlier in the day will be less likely to be admitted and if admitted will be less likely to have an overnight stay Efficiency: As home visits are required within the core GMS contract this service provides 'top up funding' to meet over and above GMS home visiting requirements. This prevents it from being separated out and funded as a standalone service from a separate provider. This service has been piloted by General Practice working primarily at PCN level with local nuances based on Geography, since 1st July 2018. This has been thoroughly evaluated at two points since then, and it has been concluded that the successful embedding of this service, as well as the ability of the providers to meet the outcomes as outlined in the specification is owed to the fact it is provided by the practices that patients already receive their primary care needs from, and the access to the wider workforce that gives them. Some key points on this are provided below: * Workforce has been diversified with HVSs making use of a range of staff including GPs, paramedics, physician associates, nurses, community matrons, pharmacists and health care assistants * Patients are being seen earlier in the day and either treated or referred to ED earlier, reducing the length of stay in hospital * All HVSs reported, as a result of the introduction of their HVS, GPs' time was better used. * Most GPs are reporting that they only spend 0-30 minutes per day on home visits now, in comparison to +120 minutes prior to the scheme * Up skilling and better job satisfaction for all staff involved. Community nurses were reported to have benefited from HVS expertise and GPs were reported to be happier. * There had been a 18% decrease in the total GP referred ED attendances when comparing the same period prior to the service being in place, compared with during.. In addition the potential system benefits attributed to this service are as a result of the efficiencies realised through funding this via primary care. The service has also had an extremely positive effect on practices, with 85% of Clinicians reporting that the service has reduced their stress levels and 86% reporting that the service has had a positive impact on the sustainability of their practice. This service will be led and delivered by GP Practices to cover the Fareham and Gosport and South Eastern Hampshire CCG population.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/016235-2021 |
| Notice type | Planning 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 | Not specified |
| All stages | Planning, Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 12 Jul 2021 |
| Submission deadline | 30 Jun 2021 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 29 Jun 2021 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £6,353,235 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £6,353,235 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Active |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | NHS SOUTHAMPTON, HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT CLINICAL COMMISSIONING GROUP |
| Additional buyers | NHS HAMPSHIRE SOUTHAMPTON AND ISLE OF WIGHT CCG |
| Locality | WINCHESTER |
| Post town | Not specified |
| Postcode | N/A |
| Country | Not specified |
| ITL 1 | Not specified |
| ITL 2 | Not specified |
| ITL 3 | Not specified |
| Local authority | Not specified |
| Electoral ward | Not specified |
| Westminster constituency | Not specified |
| Delivery location | TLJ3 Hampshire and Isle of Wight |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 9 |
| Supplier names | BADGERSWOOD SURGERY; CENTRE PRACTICE; HIGHLANDS PRACTICE; OAKS HEALTHCARE; STUBBINGTON MEDICAL PRACTICE; SWAN MEDICAL GROUP; THE ELMS PRACTICE; VINE MEDICAL GROUP; WILLOW GROUP |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 85121100 - General-practitioner services
- 85121200 - Medical specialist services

## Release History

- 12 Jul 2021 at 14:17 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/016235-2021
- 25 May 2021 at 14:39 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/011625-2021

## Notice URLs

- https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning

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