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[To be introduced by the Cabinet  Member for Health and Wellbeing. Report of the Director for Public Health] The report will seek agreement for the Council  to be part of the London wide procurement process. The report will seek approval of  the London Procurement Strategy and request delegation of the decisions  for awarding contracts to the Leader of the Council.

Councillor Morton returned to the meeting.

The Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing introduced the report which set out the re commissioning of a modernised network of sexual health services able to meet London’s challenging sexual health issues.

RESOLVED

1.    To approve the Council’s participation in a London wide procurement for a web-based system to include a ‘front-end’ portal joined up partner notification and home/self-sampling, to be led by one Council on behalf of the Councils in the LSHTP.

2.    To approve the Council’s participation in a sub-regional procurement strategy for re-procurement of a contract for GUM and CaSH services. Participating Councils in the sub region include Barnet, Camden, City of London, Haringey, Hackney, Enfield and Islington.

3.    To note that the Leader has agreed to take responsibility for approving the awards of the contract for the web-based system to be procured in accordance with paragraph 3.1 and of the contract for GUM and CaSH services to be procured in accordance with paragraph 3.2.

4.    To note that the Leader has agreed to take responsibility for approving the new collaborative commissioning model for the Council to participate in London-wide cross charging once this has been developed in accordance with the proposals in paragraphs 4.11 of this report.

5.    To note the progress made in developing options for the future commissioning and procurement of GUM and CaSH services and the named inclusion of the Council in the Prior Indicative Notice (PIN) and Official Journal of European Union Notice (OJEU) for procurement of these services at the sub regional level as part of the strategy referred to in paragraph 3.2.

6.    To approve an extension of the Council’s current contract with Whittington Health NHS Trust for provision of an integrated GUM and CaSH service to residents of the borough for a further 18 months from 1st April 2016 until 30th September 2017 subject to an option for the Council to terminate the contract after 31^st March 2017 on 1 month’s notice.  The contract value for the period of extension will be pro rated based on a full year rate of £2,582,000. 

Reasons for decision  

Approval was being sought on the recommendations outlined in 3.1-3.5 across all 28 LAs participating in the LSHTP. They have been agreed by both the LSHTP board chaired by Mike Cooke, Chief Executive of Camden Council and the London Association of Directors of Public Health.

Haringey residents have high rates of sexually transmitted infections and although now reducing have had high rates of teenage pregnancy. This suggests that, although costly, sexual health services for Haringey residents need to be more effective.  The Council wants to support residents to make healthy choices and to have better sexual and reproductive health.

The LSHTP recommendations are underpinned by a business case, which demonstrates the imperative to transform the commissioning of sexual health services in London, rather than just gradual transformation or making no change. The business case is based on a detailed needs assessment, a survey completed by 24 provider  ...  view the full minutes text for item 149