Provision of Outsourced Gynaecology Services to Liverpool Women's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

This is an Intended Approach Notice to follow the Most Suitable Provider (MSP) Process under the Provider Selection Regime (PSR). This will be published for a minimum of 14 days as per the requirements of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.

This is to enable providers to approach the Authority and express their interest in being considered as the Most Suitable Provider. This is an Intended Approach Notice to follow the Most Suitable Provider (MSP) Process under the Provider Selection Regime (PSR).

Liverpool Women’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust requires additional outsourced outpatient clinic and theatre capacity to increase overall capacity for General Gynaecology services. Extremely high demand, driven by the unprecedented backlog created during the Covid-19 pandemic and internal staff capacity issues, is resulting in severe delays for routine care.

To meet a proportion of this demand, it has been proposed to procure additional capacity from an independent provider via an outsourced model. The contracted services are anticipated to provide an initial capacity increase of up to 2600 outpatient appointments, including any diagnostic management and 500 surgical procedures.

It will also be the responsibility of the outsourced provide to provider the administration wrap around. This capacity needs to be provided by the 31st of March 2026; it is the responsibility of the provider to put a delivery model in place for this activity.

Further activity beyond this date will be issued in due course subject to internal funding sign off. All activity will remain LWH activity, with the external provider holding responsibility for seeing and treating the patient only.

Activity will be recorded on LWH systems for activity recording and charging purposed. Any provider will be expected to provide LWH, on a weekly basis, with a list of procedures completed, alongside patient level coding, to ensure accurate recording of patient episodes.