NHS England has published a procurement notice highlighting plans to extend the existing digital purchasing system (DPS) to support in digitising Lloyd George records in GP practices, with “suitably experienced and qualified suppliers” invited to join the DPS until August 2026.
The opportunity is split into three lots; the first lot covers scanning services, including end-to-end process of collecting records, scanning, providing quality assurance and destroying physical copies. The maximum value for this lot is £75 million.
The second lot focuses on integration with the foundation clinical system, requiring the upload of digital Lloyd George records directly into the practice’s clinical system or the storing of digital records in an e-cloud hosted solution with a digital link included within the patient record. Estimated total maximum value for lot two is £17.5 million.
Lot three includes both scanning services and integration with the clinical foundation system, bringing in both the aforementioned capabilities with an estimated total maximum value of £90 million.
NHSE adds that the scope of the DPS may vary throughout its lifetime “in order to incorporate digitisation services which span across other parts of the UK or additional care settings”, which may include addition of lots.
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