Cataract Service

The key objectives of the service are:

• To ensure the provision of safe and effective cataract service provision to NHS patients
• To free up outpatient and primary eye care capacity for patients at higher risk of sight loss
• To ensure the delivery of training for the next generation of consultant ophthalmologists through equitable delivery of training to NHS trainees in all providers of NHS cataract surgery
• To ensure Service Users with urgent post-surgery issues and complications can be advised and managed by the Provider's own surgical ophthalmic team with any requirement and resource for other providers to support this clearly agreed.
• To achieve, and drive improvements in, the NECRTP high flow cataract pathway.

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Contract Award Notice (via Direct Award Process B).

The key objectives of the service are:

• To ensure the provision of safe and effective cataract service provision to NHS patients
• To free up outpatient and primary eye care capacity for patients at higher risk of sight loss
• To ensure the delivery of training for the next generation of consultant ophthalmologists through equitable delivery of training to NHS trainees in all providers of NHS cataract surgery
• To ensure Service Users with urgent post-surgery issues and complications can be advised and managed by the Provider's own surgical ophthalmic team with any requirement and resource for other providers to support this clearly agreed.
• To achieve, and drive improvements in, the NECRTP high flow cataract pathway.

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Contract Award Notice (via Direct Award Process B).

The annual contract value is £6,611,979.00 for a total of 4 years.

The contract start date is 01.04.2024

The contract end date is 31.03.2028

This is an existing provider.