Intermediate Minor Oral Surgery (IMOS) including treatment under Conscious Sedation - East Midlands Wide - Market Engagement Webinar

Following a number of factors outlined in Health Needs Assessments, Service Review, market engagement and wider stakeholders, public/patients engagement/consultation feedback etc, the anticipated lotting strategy is as follows: -

Lot 1: - Derby West

Lot 2: - Derby East

Lot 3: - Chesterfield*

Lot 4:- Alfreton

Lot 5: - Nottingham West

Lot 6: - Nottingham East

Lot 7: - Mansfield

Lot 8: - Worksop*

Lot 9: - Leicester North West

Lot 10: - Leicester East

Lot 11: - Leicester South

Lot 12: - Coalville

Lot 13:- Lincoln

Lot 14: - Spalding

Lot 15: - Skegness

Lot 16: - Northampton

Lot 17: - Corby

*please note due to regional boundary changes from July 2022, the proposed contracting arrangements may be revised.

The Commissioners would like to appoint service provider(s) for providing high quality Level 2 Intermediate Minor Oral Surgery (IMOS) including treatment under Conscious Sedation across the East Midlands. Intermediate Minor Oral Surgery is a referral service for people over the age of 16 years and is provided within a community setting. The service will provide specialist treatment e.g. complex dental extractions by a clinician with enhanced skills and experience that is either on the oral surgery specialist list or accredited in line with national guidance. Treatment may be provided under local anaesthetic and the clinician may use quality behavioural management techniques or provide treatment under conscious sedation where appropriate for minor oral surgery procedures.

The service objectives are to:

• ensure that equitable, accessible, cost effective, high quality IMOS Surgery including treatment under Conscious Sedation is available to the public within each STP/ICS
• increase the availability and accessibility of the primary care based IMOS Services to those patients who require sedation to support them to receive a minor oral surgical procedure locally
• reduce the number of patients receiving minor oral surgical procedures under general anaesthesia
• to deliver clinical services based on best available evidence and will work to relevant clinical guidelines published by professional bodies, incorporating relevant best-practice principles
• to have appropriately registered, qualified, trained, accredited and experienced professionals to ensure that the complexity of the patient or procedure matches the skills and setting of the individual or team providing the treatment
• to deliver safe, high quality, patient-centred oral surgery services from primary care settings by named Performers
• to ensure that patients who most need the services are able to be referred to a local provider

The Commissioners and would like to invite suitably qualified and experienced providers to participate in a survey that will help to gauge the interest in the proposed serviced. Additional information: The Commissioners would like to invite potential Bidders to a Market Engagement Webinar taking place on Tuesday 12th April 2022 at 10.00am via MS Teams. Please register your interest in attending this webinar by 10.00am on Monday 4th April 2022 by following instructions given in section VI below.