Model eye care enhanced services contract (Updated 14 March 2011)
9 February 2010
In response to requests from subscriber PCTs, PCC has now published a model eye care enhanced services contract. This comes in three variants for
Unlike the model mandatory and additional services contracts published in 2008, use of the model enhanced services contract is entirely voluntary on the part of the PCT but it may well save PCTs cost in developing local contracts. PCTs are free to use the contract as it stands or to modify it in any way that the PCT sees fit. PCTs are also free either to keep their existing contracts for enhanced services in their current format or to migrate them to the new model version.
Some of the numbering of the clauses may seem at first sight to be a little bit eccentric but we have tried as far as possible to keep the clause numbering consistent across all three variants of the enhanced services contract and also consistent with the numbering of clauses with similar effect in the model mandatory and additional services contracts.
PCTs will need to add to the model contract their own schedule 3 which should be locally negotiated and specific to the service type which is being commissioned. We are making available a sample schedule 3 from NHS Somerset based on their ACES (Acute Community Eyecare Service) scheme. NHS Somerset has also used the optical bodies’ document Quality in Optometry (see Appendices 2 and 2A below) the DH document Standards for Better Health and copies of these are also available for download below.
The models are based on those developed by NHS Somerset and Somerset LOC with support from LOCSU, and PCC gratefully acknowledges the support and co-operation offered by NHS Somerset in making these available. The LOCSU website is at http://www.loc-net.org.uk/locsu/ and its glaucoma referral refinement and OHT monitoring pathways are at http://www.loc-net.org.uk/locsu/12427331474724.html. NHS Somerset does not warrant that its document is free from legal defect nor does it take any responsibility for any resulting legal action.
Enhanced services contract briefing sheet
Model enhanced services contract for sole practitioners
Model enhanced services contract for partnerships
Model enhanced services contract for corporate bodies and limited companies
Sample schedule 3 from NHS Somerset
Appendix 2 QiO level contract compliance
Appendix 2A QiO legacy version unsupported levels 2-3-4
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