Health and Social Care Integration: Acute and Community Health Services in Hackney and the City of London

City and Hackney CCG is to become one of five devolution pilots being launched in London.

This work will transform health, social care and wellbeing services with the intended result that local services become fully integrated.

The CCG is working with the local devolution partners in Hackney & the City of London to deliver the devolution pilot, this includes the Homerton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (HUH) as the main local provider of Acute and Community Health Services.

City and Hackney CCG is currently considering awarding contracts for Acute and Community Health Services to HUH from April 2017 under regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) of the Public Contacts Regulations 2015.

The CCG believes that the unique local circumstances created by the devolution pilot are grounds for competition being absent for technical reasons and that services can only be supplied by HUH as the main local provider of services to the CCG.

The CCG believes that even where a provider already has these services at another site, mobilising them in the CCG area and building relationships with local providers would not be possible in an acceptable time for the London Health and Care Devolution partnership.