Multi-Party Framework Agreement for the Provision of a Non-Operative Treatment Pathway for Low Complexity Spinal Patients

Summary

The tender concerns the establishment of a multi-party framework agreement to provide end-to-end outpatient assessment, diagnostic and non-operative treatment pathways for low-complexity spinal patients. The contract covers approximately 1,200 patients currently on a neurosurgical waiting list. Tenderers must be suitably qualified and experienced medical services providers, and the framework agreement will cover from the first specialist outpatient consultation to discharge or to a decision that a surgical intervention is clinically indicated. It is an expectation that appointed framework operators will be able to deliver low-complexity spine procedures under the relevant National Surgical Services Framework.