Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is currently in the process of constructing a new Community Hospital for the population of Bridgwater. Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced healthcare service provider for the delivery of elective orthopaedic outpatients at the new Bridgwater site and subsequent surgery within a suitable location.
The successful bidder will perform the elective orthopaedic outpatient clinics from Bridgwater Community Hospital in line with the current musculoskeletal pathway working in conjunction with the Orthopaedic Assessment Service in Somerset (OASIS) service. For further information regarding the OASIS (West) service, please follow this link. Orthopaedic Assessment Service The Successful bidder will lease clinic space from Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust who will own the new community Hospital facilities and provide the infrastructure for outpatient clinics.
The aim of the procurement is to acquire sustainable, evidence based high quality, value for money provision of elective orthopaedic care for NHS patients. The service will:
— support local waiting times
— achieve targets and activity plans
— provide patient choice and diversity
— promote affordable innovative service models
— provide assurances to commissioners in terms of performance and service delivery
The provider will be required to treat patients referred from the OASIS service, providing an integrated care pathway to include outpatients, diagnostics and surgery as either a day case or inpatient for a range of elective orthopaedic surgery. This will look to deliver:
— outpatient appointments closer to home
— a reduction in waiting times for Bridgwater patients, permeating across the county
— increased choice and create a sustainable capacity
— wider patient choice within the locality
— continued links to OASIS (West) with a view to establishing a more streamlined cohesive service for the patients on the elective orthopaedic pathway
The potential providers will be asked to provide a population-based approach to elective orthopaedic outpatients.
The volume of activity for the successful applicant will be dependent on patient choice.
Successful bidders will be required to provide their own surgical facilities to complete the patient pathway which may involve further partnerships with organisations with appropriate facilities. Further discussions around surgical provision will be developed through the ITN process.
It is the commissioner's intention to work closely with bidders through a 2 stage Invitation to Negotiate process.