Enhanced Community ENT Service - SWH

Communitas Clinics Limited provide this service which delivers an Enhanced Community Ear Nose Throat (ENT) Service for patients with non-emergency ENT conditions across all four localities in South and West Herts place. This specialist community model is provided and led from a multi-disciplinary hub, enabling specialist assessment of patients in the community and quicker access to multi-disciplinary team assessment, diagnostics, and treatments with choice of an elective care provider if an onward referral is needed. It focuses on clearly defined clinical pathways, GP support, advice and guidance and education.

Communitas Clinics Limited provide this service which delivers an Enhanced Community Ear Nose Throat (ENT) Service for patients with non-emergency ENT conditions across all four localities in South and West Herts place. This specialist community model is provided and led from a multi-disciplinary hub, enabling specialist assessment of patients in the community and quicker access to multi-disciplinary team assessment, diagnostics, and treatments with choice of an elective care provider if an onward referral is needed. It focuses on clearly defined clinical pathways, GP support, advice and guidance and education.

The contract with Communitas Clinics Limited has been in place since Feb 2019 and the cumulative value of the contract till data is £9,021,251.

The new contract will be from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2028 for three years, with the option to extend for a further two years from 1 April 2028 to 31 March 2030

To confirm as per the PSR direct award process C, the existing provider is satisfying the existing contract, delivering a good service, meeting all KPIs, with no quality concerns and good outcomes and has very good feedback from GPs and patients and are likely to satisfy the new contract, and the proposed contracting arrangements are not changing from the existing contract.