The commissioners are seeking practitioners to join an AQP Contract to provide primary care vasectomy service non scalpel.

The commissioner is seeking practitioners to provide primary care vasectomy service non scalpel to Barnsley registered patients.

The commissioner is open to new models of service delivery and encouraged innovation in delivering patient centred solutions to the provision of this service.

Providers would need to deliver high quality, efficient services which are responsive to the needs of the local communities, in line with national guidance and local requirements.

The service would be commissioned using the Any Qualified Provider (AQP) process. In securing services under the AQP process assurance of competence, quality and safety standards are required. Any provider would be eligible to join the qualified provider list subject to them demonstrating competency against specified criteria. Qualified providers would be expected to deliver the service under the NHS Standard Contract. As a qualified provider, there would be no levels of guaranteed activity and payment would be made based on actual provision.

Successful service providers would be awarded an NHS Contract for the current AQP Contract period which ends on 31.3.2022.