Health services

Description

Waltham Forest CCG (WFCCG), has a requirement to commission from within the borough boundary, additional nursing home bed capacity and has carefully considered the options to address the capacity deficit within the borough for affordable nursing bed capacity. WF CCG has identified a vacant and non-operational nursing home on Bisterne avenue, Walthamstow and WFCCG now intends to commission nursing home beds from this site. WFCCG are to contract with (provider name) for the provision of (number of beds) Care Home Services at Bisterne Avenue, Walthamstow. A procurement process has not been followed as WFCCG believes that there are no alternative providers within the market who have the required bed capacity that WFCCG intends to commission to meet the current demands. Given the time it would take to bring new capacity to the market through new builds or conversion of existing sites, which would both have to go through protracted planning applications, with no guarantee of success, WFCCG believes that additional beds can only be provided by (provider name) and intends to make a direct award of a contract to them.