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Exclusive CCGs and local authorities are planning to put local enhanced services worth millions of pounds out to tender from April, in a move which is set to force many practices to compete for a significant proportion of their existing funding, a Pulse investigation reveals.
Some practices could lose as much as 10-15% of their income at a stroke, with commissioners planning to put services such as anticoagulation clinics, spirometry and minor surgery out to full tender or under Any Qualified Provider - and GPs facing a mountain of paperwork if they are to have a chance of retaining the contracts.
It comes as several private companies including Alliance Boots and Bupa told Pulse they were interested in competing to provide some of the services.
Pulse approached every CCG in England asking them how they plan to recommission existing local enhanced services (LESs) from April. Some 48 CCGs replied, with 23 having a made a decision so far. Of these, nine said they plan to put some or all of their LESs out to tender ? with the contracts collectively worth just over ?2m.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/your-pr...tion-from-april/20005439.article#.UsksDS5FBEF You will have to join to read the full article.
Some practices could lose as much as 10-15% of their income at a stroke, with commissioners planning to put services such as anticoagulation clinics, spirometry and minor surgery out to full tender or under Any Qualified Provider - and GPs facing a mountain of paperwork if they are to have a chance of retaining the contracts.
It comes as several private companies including Alliance Boots and Bupa told Pulse they were interested in competing to provide some of the services.
Pulse approached every CCG in England asking them how they plan to recommission existing local enhanced services (LESs) from April. Some 48 CCGs replied, with 23 having a made a decision so far. Of these, nine said they plan to put some or all of their LESs out to tender ? with the contracts collectively worth just over ?2m.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/your-pr...tion-from-april/20005439.article#.UsksDS5FBEF You will have to join to read the full article.