GP Federation Community Ultrasound

Community Non-Obstetric Ultrasound service- it is an open access community ultrasound service for adults aged 17 years and over and available to all referring clinicians within Ipswich and East Suffolk Place. Access to the service is across the place locality at a number of community venues and not at the acute site.

Suffolk GP Federation (SGPF) currently provide the community Non obstetric Ultrasound Service. It is an open access community ultrasound service for adults aged 17 years and over and available to all referring clinicians within the Ipswich and East Suffolk Alliance area. Access to the service is across the place locality in a number of community venues and not on the acute site.

Current contract extended for a further 12 months to allow for the CDC timeframe to be confirmed and detailed planning of activity/capacity across the alliance footprint and wider ICB area undertaken to enable planning for longer term needs.

NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board are awarding the contract named within this notice under the Direct Award C process which is outlined within the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. The provider named in this notice is an existing provider and has been reviewed through a Key Criteria assessment to ensure the awarding body is satisfied with current performance and reasonably expects the provider to be able to satisfy the contract which is the subject of this notice. The contract which is the subject of this notice has not changed considerably when compared with the existing / previous contract delivered by the named provider.

The ICB may wish to introduce additional services during the lifetime of the contract ("Contract modifications"). Such contract modifications will be contemplated where additional requirements are similar and or complementary to the services already included in the Specification, at any given time. Such expansion would be by the addition of services commissioned by the Authority as named in the Contract Notice. To this end, after the award of contract, there is a possibility that the contract may be varied as allowable in accordance with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. Additional information: The existing provider is satisfying the original contract and will likely satisfy the proposed contract to a sufficient standard.