Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services

Description

Facing unprecedented times the CCG commissioned the increase of bed capacity in the community as an emergency response to Covid-19 to accommodate health and social care clients and patients. The hotel beds in a community care setting would support both discharge from acute hospitals and step up from primary care/community to avoid acute hospital admission if appropriate. Both pathways aimed to support primary care/community providers and create available bed capacity in acute hospitals to enable them to manage the anticipated surge in demand and activity anticipated from Covid-19. Under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, the contracting authority considers Covid-19 to be a state of urgency that has been brought about by circumstances which a diligent contracting authority could not have foreseen. A response to the pandemic is therefore required in order to safeguard public health risks and risk to life by securing safe and continued service provision. Facing unprecedented times the CCG commissioned the increase of bed capacity in the community as an emergency response to Covid-19 to accommodate Health and Social Care clients and patients. The hotel beds in a community care setting would support both discharge from acute hospitals and step up from primary care/community to avoid acute hospital admission if appropriate. Both pathways aimed to support primary care/community providers and create available bed capacity in acute hospitals to enable them to manage the anticipated surge in demand and activity anticipated from Covid-19. Under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, the contracting authority considers Covid-19 to be a state of urgency that has been brought about by circumstances which a diligent contracting authority could not have foreseen. A response to the pandemic is therefore required in order to safeguard public health risks and risk to life by securing safe and continued service provision.