Lambeth Nursing Home APMS

NHS South East London CCG in intending to award a contract for a new Alternative Provider of Medical Services (APMS) GP Practice to cover the 10 Nursing Homes in Lambeth. The CCG is seeking to centralise the contractual arrangements for these 10 Nursing Homes under one new Provider. This will support the new Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service (DES) requirements and the delivery of the Local Enhanced Service (LES). In light of the proposal to integrate commissioning arrangements with one GP contract provider, the revised LES spec has been incorporated into the GP contract to enable integrated service provision. This model: 1. Enables all patients to be registered with the same Practice, unifying clinical responsibility and core service provision; 2. Has a newly re-specified service specification (formerly the Local Enhanced Service) that is awarded to the same Provider; 3. Has responsibility for delivery of the EHCH PCN DES specification for Nursing Homes also contracted to the same Provider.