# Provision a PCSS \(Primary Care Streaming Service\)

> Tender notice from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Kettering General Hospital](/buyers/kettering-general-hospital/contract-awards)
- Tender value: £2,500,000
- Published: 24 October 2017
- Planned start: 1 February 2018
- Planned end: 31 January 2021
- Stage: open_tender
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 8bd4456e-3947-45e6-9b75-b5dd09706c6f-178088
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-6305665a-5d3a-49c1-9cb0-cb2b10279ca2

## Description

The Primary Care Streaming Service \(PCSS\) will be provided from the Kettering General Hospital site located within the Emergency Department \(ED\) The key requirements for the PCSS are: • Provide the right care, by the most appropriate person, in the right setting ensuring consistent responses at the first point of contact\. • Streaming non-urgent patients that attend the Emergency Department back to primary care\. • Primary care GP working closely with their ED colleagues to collaboratively lead the provision of Primary Care Services at KGH • Access for walk-in patients will be via the Clinical Streamer if appropriate providing a seamless pathway to any further assessment required including ED and referral \(if necessary\) to a hospital specialist\. • Contributing to the Service development of Frail Elderly attendances at the ED from both the admission avoidance and discharge facilitation perspective\. • Contributing to the development of ambulance patient access to the service\. • Facilitation of unregistered patients to register with a GP practice • Providing health promotion and self-management education to patients, relatives and carers\. • Assuring facilitation of 1st Assessment completion within the designated 15 minutes, including NEWS and ECG where required • Seeing and treating and discharging all patients within 4 hours of their arrival at the service • Making all see and treat decisions within 60 minutes of the patient's arrival at the service • Ensuring that necessary transfers occur within 60 minutes of arrival at the service • Assuring completion of Medway for patients attending the service, with appropriate coding

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/8bd4456e-3947-45e6-9b75-b5dd09706c6f-178088)