Following the transfer of the Public Health function to the Council in 2013, Public Health undertook a procurement exercise for a new Integrated Sexual Health Service (ISHS) for Leeds. A requirement of the ISHS contract is for the provider (Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust) to takeover both the contract management and clinical governance of the activity based GP and pharmacy locally enhanced sexual health services.
The only option for the Council to be in a position to meet its contractual obligations under the ISHS contract and novate the GP and pharmacy contracts to LCH, is to directly award new one year contracts to the GPs and pharmacies from 1st April 2018 by a waiver of a contract procedure rules.
The maximum value of these activity based contracts is £905,580, and the council will continue to monitor their performance as part of the quarterly contract monitoring meetings with LCH to ensure they remain within budget.