Health and social work services

Description

Provision of urgent care centre at West Middlesex Hospital. Direct award of an interim contract for a period of 12 months to enable the CCG to complete work to review new pathways and procure new contracts. Recognising its obligations and responsibilities under the NHS (Procurement Patient Choice and Competition (No.2) Regulations 2013, the CCG has assessed the most appropriate route to awarding this contract, having regard to the necessity to secure continuity of these essential patient services and has concluded that the incumbent provider will assure the safest solution and being considered the only technically capable provider at this time. Urgent Treatment Centre is being re-specified during 2019-20 to take to market for 2020-21.