PRJ440 - Pre-procurement Market Engagement - South East London CCG - Integrated Urgent Care Service

Each year the NHS provides around 110 million urgent same day patient contacts. Around 85 million of these are urgent GP appointments and the rest are A&E or minor injuries-type visits. Some estimates suggest that between 1.5 and 3 million people who attend A&E each year could have their needs addressed in other parts of the urgent care system. Early in 2017, NHS England and NHS Improvement published the Next Steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View which highlighted the importance of delivering a functionally integ...