Concerns have been raised over how the running of the surgery will be decided
NHS bosses say they believe they have found to quickest way of deciding the future of a Lancashire doctor's surgery. Chorley village surgery which has been run by the same popular GP for more than a decade.
Local health bosses say it is the fastest way of ending the uncertainty surrounding the surgery, after a previous procurement exercise was abandoned last year because of deficiencies in how patients were consulted. However, a group pushing to keep Dr. Robinson in her post says the latest decision makes a mockery of the further 12 months of consultation carried out since – and is asking the health secretary to intervene.
However, a report presented to the organisation’s primary care commissioning committee on Thursday reiterated legal advice received earlier this year that the direct award option was not open to it because of the value of the contract involved. The report noted that the competitive procedure that has now been selected offers an “opportunity to involve patients in the evaluation process” of the bids that are ultimately received.
The commissioning committee was also advised to rule out the option of attempting to identify for itself all potential operators and selecting the “most suitable” of them, in view of the fact that only two providers had expressed an interest in the surgery during a market-testing exercise undertaken late last year.
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