Expressions of Interest for the provision of Primary Medical Services at Kingfisher Surgery, Newport Pagnell, Milton Keynes

NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (AGCSU) on behalf of Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board (ICB) (referred to as the Commissioner) are seeking expressions of interest from providers who currently hold a general medical services (GMS) contract to deliver primary medical services at Kingfisher Surgery, Newport Pagnell, as a branch surgery with the current patient list (by allocation while noting patient registration choice) from 1st July 2024.

Please note the deadline for expressions of interest is 12:00pm on Friday 13th October 2023.

The commissioner has made a strategic decision not to re-procure practices with a weighted list size below approximately 10,000 patients as stand-alone APMS contracts, and to look at alternative contracting models.

This is intended to ensure robust, resilient, and high-quality services for the population in the longer term, as we have found that smaller practices operated under APMS contracts in this area have frequently struggled with resilience and recruitment issues.

Kingfisher Surgery has an actual patient list size of 6384 and weighted 5790.99 as of June 2023.

The ICB has a strong desire that the current premises located at Elthorne Way, Newport Pagnell MK16 0JR, are maintained within primary care ensuring adequate access, capacity, and resilience for general practice services.

The ICB has therefore decided the most appropriate way to achieve this aim is to offer this practice as a branch surgery with patient list to GMS providers, thus retaining the current premises with managed list dispersal to the successful bidder.

Practices outside the Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes area will need to ensure they have their home ICB's support for this opportunity.

As a branch of the successful bidder's existing GMS contract, the annual contract value represented by the branch surgery will reflect global sum rates.