Digitisation of Lloyd George medical records for GP practices across NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICS

Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care System have been part of the national NHSX teams Acceleration Programme in which they have secured funding to enable Morcambe Bay Clinical Commissioning Group to fully digitise their Lloyd George medical records. This is in accordance with the General Medical Services Contract Reform 2019 to digitise all Lloyd George records in a phased approach across the Integrated Care System footprint by 2023.

Morecambe Bay has funding to fully digitise their Lloyd George medical records to a cloud solution which will not only create efficiencies within General Practice but free up much needed space within the practice. Morcambe Bay Clinical Commissioning Group covers 33 GP Practices with a typical practice size of circa 7,200 patients.

This procurement for Morecambe Bay Clinical Commissioning Group is part of a larger digitisation programme and the first of 5 phases covering the 5 Integrated Care Providers for Lancashire & South Cumbria. There will be potential, where funding becomes available, to roll out to the rest of Lancashire & South Cumbria.

This includes a further 200 practices across 4 Trusts and 7 Clinical Commissioning Groups totalling circa 1.3 million records. Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care System are leading the procurement on behalf of Clinical Commissioning Groups and Integrated Care Partnerships in Lancashire & South Cumbria.

Participating Clinical Commissioning Groups and Integrated Care Partnerships include: NHS Morecambe Bay CCG NHS Greater Preston Clinical Commissioning Group NHS Chorley and South Ribble Clinical Commissioning Group NHS Blackburn with Darwen Clinical Commissioning Group NHS East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group NHS Blackpool Clinical Commissioning Group NHS Fylde and Wyre Clinical Commissioning Group NHS West Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group Additional information: Interested providers will be able to view this notice via the 'current tenders' list on the e-procurement system In-Tend, available on the following link: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home In order to submit a bid, you will need to be registered on the e-procurement system and 'express an interest', and then complete a response as specified within the procurement documents. On registration, please include at least two contacts to allow for access to the system in times of absence.

The services are deemed to be subject to the full regime of current EU procurement legislation and as such this tender will be conducted in accordance with, and governed by, the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. This contract will therefore be awarded in accordance with the provisions applicable in Section 5 (sub-section 7) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.

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