Tanya Makins Public Health Contracts Manager and Performance Officer Community Pharmacy Locally Commissioned Public Health Services
Commissioning principles The Council is committed to promote fairness and transparency and is seeking to work with you as valued providers to continue to commission services from you in 2015/16 There is a need to harmonise and align pricing structures for Locally Commissioned Public Health Services across Nottinghamshire and Bassetlaw as part of the Counties Redefining Your Council approach
Current contracts with Public Health : EHC services - no changes for 2015/16 are expected Needle and Syringe Exchange and Supervised Consumption services expire in September 2014 Smoking Cessation and NRT Voucher Schemes expire in March 2016 As part of the Local Authority's ‘Redefining your Council’s’ plan all Sexual Health Services are currently being reviewed
Procurement Plans The new providers to deliver services are as follows: Adult substance misuse recovery services across Nottinghamshire; Crime Reduction Initiative (CRI) Children and young people substance misuse recovery services across Nottinghamshire; Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust Adults (including pregnant women) and children and young people obesity prevention and weight management services for Nottinghamshire; currently being re-tendered, services remain the same until 1 st of April 2015 when the new provider will be in place. approved-to-tackle-substance-misuse-and-obesity-across-notts
Claims Process Please ensure all activity from 1 st of April is input on to PharmOutcomes. You can view your invoices and statements within the system to see a break down of your payments. Also ensure for governance purposes, you continue to submit your EHC consultation forms, NRT Health questionnaires and Vouchers and your Smoking Cessation patient data monitoring forms.
Nottinghamshire County and Bassetlaw Substance Misuse Provider ‘Crime Reduction Initiatives’ (CRI) from 1 st of October 2014 Please ensure your Needle and Syringe and Supervised consumption services are input for activity up to and including the 30 th of September by the end of October. Your activity from the 1st of October will move over to CRI as your new commissioner who are continuing to use PharmOutcomes and the SMS services in their current form. PharmOutcomes help desk CRI 24 hour telephone number via secure (for referrals) at and via
New Business We are currently only receiving new business enquiries for Emergency Hormonal Contraception There is an application to complete and a process to follow Send any enquiries to This is your new Public Health query address and this is where all your queries should be sent
Commissioning Intentions We will be ing our commissioning intentions letter to you at the end of September so please look out for this as it will outline any changes to your service specifications
Locally Commissioned Public Health Services (dates in brackets denotes when current contracts will expire) GPs Community Pharmacies Smoking Cessation ( ) NHS Health Checks NRT ( ) IUCDs Emergency Hormonal Contraception Sub Dermal Implants Chlamydia Treatment GPs with Special Interest ( ) Needle & Syringe Exchange ( ) Weight Management (Bassetlaw ) ( ) Supervised Consumption ( ) Alcohol (Bassetlaw) ( ) All Sexual Health Services are currently under review
Contract Manager contact details for LCPHS Tanya Makins Public Health Contracts Manager and Performance Officer Tel (internal 33034) Mobile