Successful suppliers announced for new GP IT Futures framework

PLEASE NOTE: Embargoed until 6pm on Friday October 18. 

Nearly 70 GP IT system suppliers are to be awarded contracts to supply IT systems via the new GP IT Futures framework.

The latest phase of the GP IT Futures framework procurement process has been completed following a rigorous assessment and review of all supplier submissions. The next stage of systems assurance is now underway and due for completion in the coming weeks.

NHS Digital (on behalf of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care) has notified 69 suppliers of the intention to award framework agreements to those suppliers, subject to them completing the assurance process successfully.

This includes 16 existing suppliers², as well as three new entrants offering core clinical systems and 53 new entrants offering a range of additional system capabilities to the UK primary care market.  

This is the first framework to be awarded as part of the Digital Buying Catalogue³, which will act as a digital marketplace allowing buyers to search for and compare supplier solutions that will meet their needs.

The supplier systems are now being evaluated and assured against the new standards set by GP IT Futures, with successful existing solutions set to become available from 1 January 2020 and new to market solutions coming online throughout next year. 

Sarah Wilkinson, NHS Digital’s Chief Executive, said: “GPs and their patients deserve the most effective and efficient modern technology with which to run their practices and access their data respectively, and the health and care system at large needs easier access to the critical data held within the primary care system to enable better secondary care and a richer flow of data into medical research.

“We are delighted that the supplier community has responded so positively to our proposal for the next generation of these systems, and are going to provide such a rich set of technical solutions for primary care. We look forward to working closely with all of them over the coming years, and I thank them all for the work they have done to ensure their solutions meet our new standards and for their work in delivering them into the primary care system.”

Dr Masood Nazir, SRO for GPIT Futures and Associate CCIO, Primary Care Digital Transformation, NHSX, said: “We are pleased that so many companies share our vision to provide GPs with the best possible tools and services. Particularly as we seek to deliver digital first primary care and improve patient access to care and advice.

“With a higher standard for the industry through the new framework and interoperability, we can unlock the potential of GP IT solutions to support our busy GP Practices deliver patient care.  This marks the next phase of the programme, as we work with CCGs on plans for implementation and transition to the new framework.”

The current GPSoC contracts will expire on 31 December 2019 and NHS Digital's aim is that transition to the new framework will be completed by then. 

NHS Digital is managing the continuity and transition arrangements and will ensure all practices have access to the systems and services they need without any interruption throughout this period. 

For more information on the successful suppliers, please see below. 

Digital Care Services – GP IT Futures procurement outcome

The following GP IT system suppliers have been awarded a place on the new framework.

This includes 16 existing suppliers who offered services under the former GP System of Choice (GPSoC Lot 1 Framework Agreement), as well as three new entrants offering foundation solutions and 53 new entrants offering a range of additional system capabilities to the UK primary care market.  

A Foundation Solution is a Catalogue Solution or combination of Catalogue Solutions which singularly or collectively (as applicable) encompass all of the Foundation Capabilities:

(a)         GP referral management

(b)         prescribing

(c)          recording consultations

(d)         patient Information Maintenance

(e)         GP resource management

(f)          appointments management (GP)

Supplier
Accenda Limited
AccuRx
Advanced Health and Care Limited
Aire Logic Ltd
AlldayDr Group Ltd
Answer Digital Ltd
Apollo Medical Software Solutions Ltd
Arissian Ltd
AxSys Technology Limited
BigHand Ltd
Black Pear Software
CARE IS LTD
Clarity Informatics Limited
Clinical Architecture
Codegate Ltd
Connected Tech Group Ltd
Dictate IT
Doc Abode Ltd.
Docobo Ltd
Doctorlink
DXS International plc
eConsult Health
Edenbridge Healthcare Limited
Elsevier BV
EMIS - Egton Medical Information Systems Limited
Engage Health Systems Ltd
Evergreen Health Solutions Ltd
G2 Speech UK Ltd
Gnosco AB
GP Access Ltd
IBS, Inc.
Informatica Systems Ltd
Integrated Care 24 Limited
In Your Element Ltd (Trading as Elemental Software)
iPlato Healthcare Ltd
Lantum
Locum's Nest
LumiraDx Care Solutions Ltd
Medical Data Solutions and Services Limited
MedicalDirector Limited
Medical Management Systems
MediData Exchange Limited
MEDICAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY UK LTD
Medloop
Medxnote Limited
Metabolic Healthcare Limited
Microtest Limited
MyMed Ltd (trading as Q doctor)
myOrb Ltd
Niche Health
Numed Holdings Ltd (T/A Numed Healthcare)
OPTUM HEALTH SOLUTIONS (UK) LIMITED
PharmData ltd
Philips Electronics UK Limited
Prescribing Services Limited
Primary Care IT Ltd
Push Dr
QUALITY MEDICAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Redwood Technologies Ltd
SENSELY UK LIMITED
Servelec
Silicon Practice
Substrakt Health Ltd
Swiftqueue Technologies Limited
Targett Business Technology Limited
The Martin Bell Partnership
TPP - The Phoenix Partnership (Leeds) Ltd
Total Billing Solutions
Vision - In Practice Systems Limited

The supplier systems are now being evaluated and assured against the new standards set by GP IT Futures, with successful existing solutions set to become available from 1 January 2020 and new to market solutions coming online