Additional primary community Care Services to selected GP practices within Nottingham City

This is a Prior Information notice only.

The full requirement will be advertised and tendered separately during January 2017.

NHS Nottingham City CCG (onwards referred to as "the Commissioner") is seeking a single provider to deliver a range of community based services to a limited number of GP practices within Nottingham City.

The services will include: • Adult Phlebotomy - clinic based and domiciliary service encompassing all blood sampling for investigations and follow-up.

The service excludes the taking of bloods for Warfarin anticoagulation therapy, bloods required as part of a shared care protocol and bloods and emergency bloods required on the same day / within 24 hours. • Treatment Room services - to provide a minor injury and wound care treatment room service for patients requiring minor interventions including minor lacerations, partial thickness thermal burns and scalds, minor trauma to hand, limbs or feet, postoperative care for patient able to attend a clinic and a dressings service. • Ear Irrigation - to patients aged 12+ years • ECG - to patients aged 18+ years for routine screening of ambulant patients who are able to attend clinic.

This service is not for emergency ECGs. • H Pylori - for patients who are under Patient Specific Directive (PSD) requiring this test. • Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) - for patients with a confirmed diagnosis of prostate cancer the service will provide PSA monitoring for investigations and follow-up.

It is anticipated that 9 practices are required to be covered by this service; these practices have a registered population in the range of 56,500 (raw list size).

The practices are located across the City covering Care Delivery Groups 2, 4, 6 and 8 (see attached map of the City).

The commissioner does not require the services to be provided at each individual practice site; however, the service location(s) is expected to be easily accessible and central to the population covered.

The Commissioner will confirm the number of practices, registered population and post codes of practices in the publication of the tender.

Please see attached word document for full details of the estimated activity levels.

The contract and its duration: The service will be contracted via the NHS Standard Contract for 3 years, starting on the 1st April 2017 expiring on 31st March 2020.

Please note this is for information only and in order to submit an offer for advertised tender you must respond in accordance with the instructions contained within the full advert which is anticipated to be advertised during January 2017.

In order to understand the level of market interest could we ask that if you are potentially interested in this opportunity that you email David.Bailey@ardengemcsu.nhs.uk stating whether you would be interested in bidding for the whole package and any potential issues which may potentially stop you from bidding