Integrated Urgent Care Services for Yorkshire and Humber

NHS Greater Huddersfield Clinical Commissioning Group has awarded a contract on behalf of the Yorkshire and Humber Joint Strategic Commissioning Board representing the Yorkshire and Humber (Y&H) Clinical Commissioning Groups and NHS England (the Commissioners) sought to jointly commission an innovative, collaborative and dynamic provider to supply a key part of their Integrated Urgent Care (IUC) service. The contract will be for an initial 60 months, with the option to extend for a further 24 months. The anticipated contract start date is 1st April 2019. Yorkshire and the Humber (Y&H) covers a population of approximately 5.4 million people and covers an area of 15,000sq KM. Twenty one (21) CCGs across 3 Sustainability Transformation Partnerships (STPs) and 1 Shadow Integrated Care System (ICS) together with NHS England sought to jointly commission Integrated Urgent Care (IUC) services for the entire Y&H footprint. A national specification was published in August 2017 following a period of consultation and confirmed that integrating urgent care brings about an "Opportunity to deliver a model of urgent care access that can streamline and improve patient care across the urgent care community" (National Specification 2017). Organisations participating in the procurement of IUC services are listed within Appendix 1. The Y&H Commissioners sought a regional NHS 111 telephony and call handling service as part of a virtual CAS. The virtual CAS will provide a regional "Core CAS" working collaboratively and aligned with a range of providers via connections with local CAS services. The original Contracts Finder Notice issued on the 24th April 2018 can be found at: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/3f6aef62-db7e-4140-9678-25f93bb804ba