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title: "Nuffield Health"
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buyer: "NHS BRISTOL, NORTH SOMERSET AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD"
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# Nuffield Health

Buyer: NHS BRISTOL, NORTH SOMERSET AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-04b4af

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## Summary

The NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board has concluded a procurement process under the Health Care Services regulations for the provision of surgical hospital services. Nuffield Health has been awarded the contract to deliver elective care, including orthopaedics, spinal services, and general surgery to NHS patients. This service will cover routine elective procedures such as outpatient consultations, pre-treatment assessments, and treatments, ensuring high-quality, evidence-based, and cost-effective care from 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2026. The procurement was conducted through a direct award process without prior publication of a call for competition, in line with patient choice requirements.

This tender provides significant opportunities for businesses specializing in healthcare services, particularly those with expertise in orthopaedics, spinal care, and general surgery. Independent healthcare providers with the capability to deliver comprehensive patient pathways, from initial consultation to post-treatment discharge, are well-suited to benefit from participating in similar future tenders. SMEs and large enterprises in the healthcare sector can leverage such contracts to expand their operations and enhance their service portfolios amidst increasing demand for elective care in the NHS.

## Notice

The aim of this service specification is to indicate the requirements for sustainable, evidence based, high quality, value for money provision of elective care to NHS Patients. This will support local waiting time targets and activity plans and provide patient choice and activity. The service will provide routine elective secondary care services for patients in the following specialties (though these may be amended in line with General Condition 13). * Orthopaedics * Spinal Services (where ICB is Commissioner) * General Surgery

### Lot Information

Lot 1

The aim of this service specification is to indicate the requirements for sustainable, evidence based, high quality, value for money provision of elective care to NHS Patients. This will support local waiting time targets and activity plans and provide patient choice and activity. The service will provide routine elective secondary care services for patients in the following specialties (though these may be amended in line with General Condition 13) * Orthopaedics * Spinal services (where ICB is Commissioner) * General Surgery The services will include, where appropriate; * Pre-treatment e.g. referral processes; triage/clinical assessment; diagnostics; consultation; pre-treatment assessment and / or work up. * Treatment e.g. outpatient/ambulatory/inpatient treatment; joint assessments. * Discharge e.g. expected physical, self-care, psychological capabilities prior to discharge. This is a service specification for routine elective, multi-disciplinary inpatient, day case, outpatient procedures, outpatient services and diagnostics from independent sector providers. The providers must be able to offer the full patient pathway at specialty level for acute elective surgery from the first outpatient to completion of treatment with the exception of occupational therapy / physiotherapy, (as contained in 3.5.3 below). The award has been made following Direct Award Process B. The procurement has been conducted in line with Right To Choose requirements. This is an activity-based contract with no guaranteed value. The contract has been awarded for the period 01/04/2024 - 31/03/2026 with no provision for extension included

### Procurement Information

The procurement has been conducted in line with Right to Choose requirements. Re-award under patient choice requirements.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/036096-2024 |
| 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 |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 7 Nov 2024 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 31 Mar 2024 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

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

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | NHS BRISTOL, NORTH SOMERSET AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD |
| Additional buyers | NHS GLOUCESTERSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARD |
| Locality | BRISTOL |
| Post town | Bristol |
| Postcode | BS1 6AG |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLK South West (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLK7 Gloucestershire and Wiltshire |
| ITL 3 | TLK73 Gloucestershire CC |
| Local authority | Gloucester |
| Electoral ward | Westgate |
| Westminster constituency | Gloucester |
| Delivery location | TLK11 Bristol, City of |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | NUFFIELD HEALTH |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 85111100 - Surgical hospital services

## Release History

- 7 Nov 2024 at 13:12 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/036096-2024

## Notice URLs

- https://bnssg.icb.nhs.uk/
- https://www.nhsglos.nhs.uk

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