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STAFFORDSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT

NHS Southport & Formby CCG and NHS South Sefton CCG - Home Oxygen Service - Assessment & Referral (HOS-AR)

HealthcareCPV 85000000 85100000 85140000 85141000
Value£1.8m
Awarded12 Nov 2021
Published24 May 2022
RegionNorth West
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£1.8mtotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£16.5m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Health & Social Care band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

The brief

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) is working with NHS Southport & Formby Clinical Commissioning Group and NHS South Sefton Clinical Commissioning Group to award a contract for a Home Oxygen Service - Assessment & Referral (HOS-AR) for patients living in the CCG area.

The aim of the Home Oxygen Assessment and Review Service (HOS-AR) is to ensure that home oxygen is appropriately prescribed to those people who clinically need it.

The provider will be required to deliver assessment and follow-up appointments in either a clinic environment or in the patient's home, where appropriate.

The service will clinically manage all adult patients where a potential need for home oxygen has been identified or a prescription for home oxygen has been initiated.

NICE guidance recommends that a specialised assessment needs to take place to enable the oxygen requirements of the patient is individually met.

There will be an initial contract period of 4 years commencing on 1st April 2022.

There will be the option to extend for a further 2-year period from 1st April 2026.

The contract value is set at £1,800,000 over the entire 6-year contract period.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

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NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) is working with NHS Southport & Formby Clinical Commissioning Group and NHS South Sefton Clinical Commissioning Group to award a contract for a Home Oxygen Service.

02

The aim of the Home Oxygen Assessment

The aim of the Home Oxygen Assessment and Review Service (HOS-AR) is to ensure that home oxygen is appropriately prescribed to those people who clinically need it.

03

The provider will be required to deliver

The provider will be required to deliver assessment and follow-up appointments in either a clinic environment or in the patient's home, where appropriate.

04

NICE guidance recommends that a specialised assessment

NICE guidance recommends that a specialised assessment needs to take place to enable the oxygen requirements of the patient is individually met.

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