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title: "Primary Care NHS Health Check Pathway service for 2026/2029"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-0788b7"
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current_stage: "Planning"
buyer: "West Berkshire Council"
published: "2026-10-15"
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# Primary Care NHS Health Check Pathway service for 2026/2029

Buyer: West Berkshire Council  
Current stage: Planning  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-0788b7

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## Summary

West Berkshire Council plans to recommission NHS Health Checks through a primary care pathway for eligible residents aged 40 to 74 in West Berkshire. The service covers the full pathway: identifying and assessing the eligible population, risk stratification, inviting and recalling residents, delivering checks, assessing cardiovascular risk, explaining individual risk, supporting behaviour change, referring patients onwards, clinical follow-up, and recording and reporting data. It is intended to improve access to preventative care, identify cardiovascular and related health risks, support better health outcomes and reduce health inequalities. Delivery is designed primarily through West Berkshire primary care practices, with a Primary Care Network lead practice or the Primary Care Federation potentially supporting coverage where individual practices do not contract. The service is general-practitioner and wider health services work.

This is at the planning stage: West Berkshire Council has set out its intention to procure, but there is no invitation to tender. The Council expects to use the Provider Selection Regime’s Most Suitable Provider Process and intends to select the provider or group of providers it considers most suitable without a competitive process, applying the regime’s five key criteria and basic selection criteria. It says formal provider assessment will not begin until at least 14 days after the notice is submitted for publication. A further notice is expected on 4 November 2026. The planned service period is indicated by the title as 2026–2029. No estimated contract value or budget is provided in the process information.

The planned model is aimed first at primary care practices in West Berkshire, making established local practices with the reach and clinical capacity to deliver checks across eligible residents particularly relevant. The service requires the ability to manage a whole population pathway, including outreach and recall, cardiovascular assessment, personalised communication of risk, behaviour-change support, referral and follow-up, alongside reliable data recording and reporting. Primary Care Networks and the Primary Care Federation may also be relevant providers, particularly where practices do not contract directly and wider population coverage is needed. The Council intends to identify a suitable provider or group of providers against the Provider Selection Regime’s key criteria and basic selection criteria; it does not plan to run a competitive process. Suppliers should therefore prepare to demonstrate fit against those criteria and the delivery needs described.

## Notice

West Berkshire Council is recommissioning the NHS Health Checks Service: Primary Care Pathway for eligible West Berkshire residents aged 40 to 74. The service will include all elements of the NHS Health Check pathway, including identification of the eligible population, risk stratification, call and recall, delivery of health checks, cardiovascular risk assessment, personalised risk communication, behaviour change support, onward referral, clinical follow-up, data recording and reporting. The service is intended to improve access to preventative interventions, identify cardiovascular risk and reduce health inequalities. It has been developed primarily for delivery by West Berkshire Primary Care practices, with provision for a Primary Care Network lead Practice and/or the Primary Care Federation to support population coverage where individual practices do not enter into a contract.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intended approach notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. In accordance with Regulation 10 of The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023, West Berkshire Council intends to follow the Most Suitable Provider Process for the recommissioning of the NHS Health Checks Service: Primary Care Pathway in West Berkshire. The Council has considered the providers likely to be capable of delivering the service to the relevant population. Taking account of its knowledge of the provider landscape and the information currently available, the Council considers that it is able to identify the most suitable provider or group of providers without running a competitive process. The Council intends to award contracts to the provider or group of providers identified as most suitable, having regard to the five PSR key criteria and the basic selection criteria. The Council will not proceed with the formal assessment of potential providers until at least 14 days after the day on which this notice is submitted for publication. The service: NHS Health Checks Service, Primary Care Pathway The service will provide NHS Health Checks for eligible West Berkshire residents aged 40 to 74. The programme aims to identify and support the management of cardiovascular and related health risks through risk assessment, personalised risk communication, behaviour change support and appropriate onward referral and clinical follow-up. The service will include identification of the eligible population, risk stratification, call and recall, delivery of NHS Health Checks, data recording and reporting. It is intended to improve access to preventative interventions, support improved health outcomes and reduce health inequalities. The service has been developed primarily for delivery by Primary Care practices in West Berkshire. To ensure population coverage, the Council may also contract through a Primary Care Network nominated lead Practice and/or the Primary Care Federation where individual Primary Care practices do not enter into a contract.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/097570-2026 |
| Notice type | Planning Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Not Specified |
| Procurement method details | Not specified |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Planning |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 15 Oct 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | 4 Nov 2026 |
| Award date | Not specified |
| 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 | Planned |
| Lots status | Planned |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | West Berkshire Council |
| Locality | NEWBURY |
| Postcode area | Reading |
| Postcode | RG14 5LD |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLJ South East (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLJ1 Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire |
| ITL 3 | TLJ16 Berkshire West |
| Local authority | West Berkshire |
| Electoral ward | Newbury Central |
| Westminster constituency | Newbury |
| Delivery location | TLC North East (England), TLD North West (England), TLE Yorkshire and The Humber, TLF East Midlands (England), TLG West Midlands (England), TLH East (England), TLI London, TLJ South East (England), TLK South West (England) |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 85100000 - Health services
- 85121100 - General-practitioner services

## Release History

- 15 Oct 2026 at 15:13 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/097570-2026

## Notice URLs

- http://www.westberks.gov.uk

## Provenance

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