DGFT - NHS Sub-Contract for the Provision of Outsourced General Surgery Services

Description

The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust has awarded an NHS Sub-contract to Ramsay Health UK Limited for the provision of additional elective General Surgery capacity.<br/><br/>The service will support the reduction of General Surgery waiting times and treatment backlogs by providing eligible patients with access to triage, outpatient assessment, diagnostics where required, decision to treat and operative intervention.<br/><br/>Patients will be transferred in accordance with agreed clinical pathways and inclusion and exclusion criteria.<br/><br/>The contract has been awarded under Regulation 14 of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 due to urgent circumstances and the need to ensure that the identified patient cohort can be seen and treated without further avoidable delay.

Key facts

Procedure

Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition

Lots

1

Contact

Paul Mellor

paul.mellor1@nhs.net

+44 07483995505

Category

services

Awarded suppliers

• Ramsay Health Care UK Operations Limited · GB-FTS-184418 · UK

Ground given for limiting competition

The buyer’s own stated reason for awarding without open competition, as published. Their assertion, not a finding.

The contract has been awarded under Regulation 14 of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.<br/><br/>The award was required urgently, with time being of the essence to ensure that patients within the identified cohort could be seen and treated without further delay.<br/><br/>The urgent award provides a time-limited period of outsourced General Surgery capacity to support the Trust's existing internal capacity, reduce waiting times and address treatment backlogs.<br/><br/>Delaying the award in order to undertake an alternative provider selection process would have risked further delays to patient assessment and treatment.