Section one: Contracting authority/entity
one.1) Name and addresses
NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board
King Edward VII Hospital
Windsor
SL4 3DP
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UKJ37 - North Hampshire
NHS Organisation Data Service
D4U1Y
Internet address(es)
Main address
Buyer's address
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
Community Tele-dermatology Service
Reference number
PSCG0018
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 85000000 - Health and social work services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
NHS Frimley ICB ("the Commissioner") sought to commission virtual dermatology triage and medical photography clinics for conditions referred for virtual triage. This service comprises:
1. medical photography clinics; locally accessible service delivered at clinical sites across the Frimley ICS geography; provision of staff trained in taking good quality dermatoscopic images of both rashes and lesions; available 6 days / week to ensure a fast turnaround (2-working days for urgent suspected cancer); onward referral of case with supporting images into virtual triage service
2. virtual triage service; accepting adult and paediatrics (12yrs and over) on all pathways (routine, urgent and suspected cancer); cases accepted direct from primary care (if suitable images can be provided) or via medical photography clinics (as above); available to all practices within the Frimley ICS geography; review and onward referral to community or acute services, as appropriate, or return to primary care with advice and management plan; review and outcome within 2 working days of receipt of case (with images attached). Quarterly educational sessions for primary care also delivered as part of this service.
Frimley ICB has followed PSR Direct Award C for the contract to which this notice relates.
Consultant-led treatment is not provided as part of this service, and so the service does not fall within the scope of the legal right to patient choice.
Section six. Complementary information
six.6) Original notice reference
Notice number: 2024/S 000-026272
Section seven. Changes
seven.1) Information to be changed or added
seven.2) Other additional information
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts
Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award.
This contract has now been formally awarded using direct award process C.