South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS) is being awarded the lead contract for NHS111/Integrated Urgent Care (IUC) services by the Hampshire and Surrey Heath Partnership from June 2021, which comprises the following Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG):
1) NHS Surrey Heath CCG;
2) NHS North Hampshire CCG;
3) NHS West Hampshire CCG;
4) NHS Southampton City CCG;
5) NHS Fareham and Gosport CCG;
6) NHS South Eastern Hampshire CCG;
7) NHS Portsmouth CCG;
8) NHS North East Hampshire and Farnham CCG;
9) NHS England.
The contract award notice was published on 3 April 2020 (ref 2020/S 067-160620).
This contract award notice confirms the contracting authority's commissioning intention to direct award subcontracts for the provision of aspects of this service directly to the two incumbent providers for local out-of-hours primary care, namely North Hampshire Urgent Care (NHUC) and Partnering Health Ltd (PHL), as detailed and published by Hampshire and Surrey Heath CCG Partnership in both their published prior information notice and contract award notice.
Subcontract 1 is to be awarded to NHUC and the subcontract comprises three service elements:
(i) clinical assessment service;
(ii) face-face appointments;
(iii) home visiting — for the area covered by North Hampshire, North East Hampshire and Farnham and Surrey Heath CCGs.
Subcontract 2 — this subcontract comprises two service elements:
(i) clinical assessment service
(ii) home visiting — for the area covered by West Hampshire CCG, plus the provision of a GP to work in the IUC 24/7 across the Hampshire and Surrey Heath area.
Subcontract 1 is to be awarded to NHUC and the subcontract comprises three service elements:
(i) clinical assessment service;
(ii) face-face appointments;
(iii) home visiting — for the area covered by North Hampshire, North East Hampshire and Farnham and Surrey Heath CCGs.
Subcontract 2 — this subcontract comprises two service elements:
(i) clinical assessment service;
(ii) home visiting — for the area covered by West Hampshire CCG, plus the provision of a GP to work in the IUC 24/7 across the Hampshire and Surrey Heath area.