Dear Halush Brinton, 

NHS England has assessed your communication as a request under the Freedom
of Information (FOI) Act 2000. Your request is being dealt with under the
terms of the FOI Act and will be answered within twenty working days. Your
reference number is FOI-2408-2132266.

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Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information

NHS England
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Dear Halush Brinton,

We refer to your email of 19 August 2024 in which you requested
information under the Freedom of Information Act from NHS England.

Your request

You made the following request:

Please provide access to copies of your current and also previous High
secure services contract and guidance dating back to 2018.

*note further that UK Gov has published DHSC Policy paper NHS Standard
Contracts for 2012/13 which specifically refers to specific NHS Contracts
for High Secure Care.

Decision

NHS England holds the information you have requested and has decided to
release all of the information that it holds.

Please see the following links to the NHS Standard Contract Particulars,
Service Conditions and General Conditions which are applicable to all
providers of NHS services in England (including High Secure) between 1
April 2024 and 31 March 2025.
 

• [1]Full length Particulars
• [2]Full length Service Conditions
• [3]Full length General Conditions

 
The Service Conditions and General Conditions of the NHS Standard Contract
do not need to be exchanged between parties as part of their local
agreement. Rather, the Service Conditions and General Conditions will be
incorporated into, and will apply automatically as part of, each local
contract by reference only.  The only element of the Contract exchanged
between the parties locally will be the Particulars, which set out the
locally agreed elements as follows
 

• Service Commencement
• The Services
• Payments
• Local Quality Requirements
• Governance
• Contract Management; Reporting Requirements.

For previous versions, please see the below link:

[4]NHS England » NHS Standard Contract

Please note in the above that the '2018' version was updated several times
and so became the '2017/19' contract, but thereafter it is one version per
year.

Copyright

NHS England operates under the terms of the Open Government Licence (OGL).
Terms and conditions can be found on the following link:

[5]http://www.england.nhs.uk/terms-and-cond...

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Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information

NHS England

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