Provider Selection Regime Consultation
The Department of Health and Social Care are consulting on the implementation of a new Provdier Selection Regime that will change the procurement rules for the purchase of healthcare services in England. This may mean that competitive tendering processes are used in commissioning less frequently.
The Provider Selection Regime proposed would be primarily for healthcare services but may be relevant to social care services in specific circumstances where the main subject matter of the contract is the delivery of healthcare services to individuals and procuring these services under separate regimes in separate contracts would adversely impact care quality, lead to overall contract aims remaining unfulfilled, or would not be in the best interests of patients, taxpayers, and the population. This could apply in some circumstances to the following:
- NHS continuing healthcare services
- packages arranged under the Better Care Fund
- Discharge to assess services
- mental health aftercare services
- prison healthcare services
- asylum seekers healthcare services
- veteran healthcare services
Views are invited to identify services where there is potential overlap.
Closes 28 March 2022
