Termination of Pregnancy Services

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Dear FOI Team,

I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, details in respect to the contract below.

Termination of Pregnancy Services

The details we require are:

1. Please confirm the organisations commissioned by the CCG to provide Termination of Pregnancy Services to your patients?
2. Please confirm the end dates of currently commissioned contracts?
3. Are any providers currently within an extension period of their contract?
4. Were contracts awarded through a competitive tender process?
5. What is the form of contract: AQP or sole provider?
6. At what percentage of tariff is each provider delivering services?
7. What activity numbers were delivered by each provider, by HRG code, over the past 12 months?
8. Please confirm the annualised actual contract values for each provider for 2019/20?
9. Please confirm who (if any) providers are providing ToP services to patients without a contract where a patient has exercised their right to choose a provider? What are the activity numbers delivered per provider?
10. What were the average wait times for providers over the past 12 months? (broken down by month and surgical/medical)
11. Do any of the contracted providers sub-contract any parts of the service to an alternative provider? If so, who and what?
12. Does ToP feature on the CCGs commissioning intentions?

• Who is the senior officer (outside of procurement) responsible for this contract?

Thank you for your help.

Yours sincerely

Mrs K Bourne

CCG FOI, NHS Portsmouth Clinical Commissioning Group

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CCG FOI, NHS Portsmouth Clinical Commissioning Group

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Reference Number: CCG2020/131

 

Dear Mrs K Bourne

 

Thank you for your e-mail of the 10^th August 2020 requesting information
concerning Termination of Pregnancy Services.

 

I am pleased to acknowledge your request on behalf of the following
Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG):

 

o NHS Portsmouth CCG

 

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Yours sincerely

 

 

 

Information Governance

Portsmouth City Council, on behalf of Portsmouth Clinical Commissioning
Group

 

 

 

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CCG FOI, NHS Portsmouth Clinical Commissioning Group

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Portsmouth City Council, on behalf of Portsmouth Clinical Commissioning
Group
Corporate Information Governance Team

Customer Community & Democratic Service

Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, PO1 2AL

Telephone: 023 9268 8482
Email: [1][NHS Portsmouth CCG request email]

 

 

Reference number: CCG2020/131

Dear Mrs K Bourne

 

Thank you for your e-mail of 10^th August 2020 requesting information
concerning Termination of Pregnancy Services, which has been considered
under the Freedom of Information Act.

 

In accordance with the Act, I confirm the information you are seeking is
held in part and the following response is issued on behalf of NHS
Portsmouth Clinical Commissioning Group.

 

YOUR REQUEST & OUR RESPONSE:

 

I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of
Information Act, details in respect to the contract below.

 

Termination of Pregnancy Services

 

The details we require are:

 

1. Please confirm the organisations commissioned by the CCG to provide
Termination of Pregnancy Services to your patients?

 

Solent NHS Trust

 

2. Please confirm the end dates of currently commissioned contracts?

 

31^st March 2022

 

3. Are any providers currently within an extension period of their
contract?

 

No

 

4. Were contracts awarded through a competitive tender process?

 

Yes

 

5. What is the form of contract: AQP or sole provider?

 

Sole Provider

 

6. At what percentage of tariff is each provider delivering services?

 

Services are commissioned at local prices.

 

7. What activity numbers were delivered by each provider, by HRG code,
over the past 12 months?

 

This service is not commissioned by HRG.

 

8. Please confirm the annualised actual contract values for each provider
for 2019/20?

 

Portsmouth Clinical Commissioning Group value for 2019/20 was £501,217.

 

9. Please confirm who (if any) providers are providing ToP services to
patients without a contract where a patient has exercised their right to
choose a provider?

What are the activity numbers delivered per provider?

 

Portsmouth Clinical Commissioning Group do not hold this information.

 

10. What were the average wait times for providers over the past 12
months? (broken down by month and surgical/medical)

 

Portsmouth Clinical Commissioning Group do not hold this information.

 

11. Do any of the contracted providers sub-contract any parts of the
service to an alternative provider? If so, who and what?

 

TOPs is sub contracted to BPAS

 

12. Does ToP feature on the CCGs commissioning intentions?

 

This is a mandated service so must continue to be provided.

 

• Who is the senior officer (outside of procurement) responsible for this
contract?

 

Hannah Byrne is responsible for the Quality element of the service
specification. Lucy Carter in the CSU oversees the contractual elements.

 

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Yours sincerely

 

 

Information Governance

Portsmouth City Council, on behalf of Portsmouth Clinical Commissioning
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