Ranworth PCN

Project Brief

Baxendale were commissioned by Ranworth Surgery in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, to provide bid strategy and advice, and bid production and submission support. Ranworth were bidding for the procurement of Alternative Provider of Medical Services (APMS) contracts for Caradoc, Frinton Road, Epping Close and Green Elms practice offers.

This presented an opportunity for the practice to secure the delivery of these core services for the next 7-10 years, while creating a platform from which to transform primary care more widely via a Primary Care Network.

The Solution

We reviewed a wide variety of content as part of this process, bringing forth our own expertise to make suggestions for improvement. Topics covered in the bid included: 

1. Workforce (capacity and capability; training; leadership and values; staff management and competency)

2. Quality Procedures and performance (patient feedback; complaints process; governance of patient safety, and infection prevention and control (IPC); safeguarding; chronic disease management; and writing case studies)

3. Mobilisation (approach, mobilisation plan and risk register) Service Delivery (patient access; digital innovation; medicines management; partnership working; and managing multiple sites)

4. Sustainability

5. Information Governance (data security and protection; and management of information governance)

6. Finances (financial modelling template (FMT))

Ranworth Surgery secured the contract in a highly competitive filed.

The Results

As a result of our dedicated efforts to assist Ranworth Surgery in completing their bid response on time and to a high quality, Ranworth Surgery’s tender application was successful, and the contract was secured.

We were highly praised by the Ranworth team for our efforts in enabling this success. We were told (informally) that it was a highly competitive field (6 bidders) where our tender stood ‘head and shoulders’ above the competition.