Buyer Name: South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Buyer Address: 2 Eggleston Court, Middlesbrough, UKC1, TS2 1RU, United Kingdom
Contact Name: Stephanie Macpherson
Contact Email: stephanie.macpherson@nhs.net
Contact Telephone: +44 1642850850
Buyer Name: South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Buyer Address: 2 Eggleston Court, Middlesbrough, UKC1, TS2 1RU, United Kingdom
Contact Name: Stephanie Macpherson
Contact Email: stephanie.macpherson@nhs.net
Contact Telephone: +44 1642850850
The Echo department is currently working with a short fall of three whole time equivalent (WTE) qualified staff. The department also runs at a deficit to allow other areas to maintain provision such as the Cardiac Cath Labs (emergency on call) and CIU at James Cook and The Friarage. The Echo team currently lose collectively 0.75WTE to help support these other areas. This is further exacerbated by the opening of the diagnostic hub and spoke site in May 2025, a post which South Tees cannot recruit to and requires displacement of staff from the main site. <br/><br/>There is national shortage of Echocardiographers, and the Echo’s team have had adverts out for the position three times but been unsuccessful. <br/><br/>As the DM01 figures are highlighting, performance against the six-week wait is significantly below target and this will continue to reduce without urgent implementation of additional capacity. This will not only affect new patients but a large amount of review patients within cardiology service and across the Trust, for areas such as Oncology. <br/><br/>The capacity of inpatient service has also been affected; waiting times for inpatient echo has increased to 72-96 hours. This is affecting the patient flow through the Trust as the department provide a service to all the Trusts specialities. Thus the need to award to a supplier.
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Lot Description: The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by 3rd December 2025. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR<br/><br/>This award will be to an existing provider for services that have previously been undertaken. <br/><br/>Conflicts of interest identified among stakeholders: 0 . Additional information: N/A
Lot 1 Status: cancelled
Lot 1 Has Options: No
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