Outpatient Pharmacy Dispensing service

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) and Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (BTH) are together issuing a joint invitation to tender in connection with the competitive procurement of the provision for a Pharmacy Outpatient Dispensing Services within a Service Contract. This contract is for the provision of dispensing services for Outpatient, Cancer, UCC (site dependent) and ED (site dependent) attendees of ELHT and BTH. The Service Provider will be responsible for the clinical check (excluding oncology and haematology, unless oncology trained and competent), procurement, storage, dispensing, distribution and delivery of medicines, ancillaries needed for their safe administration, invoicing and the provision of management information. Services may be extended for the provision of monitored dosage systems. The Service Provider is required to provide onsite outpatient dispensing services or an alternative innovative solution to cover all clinical specialties within the opening hours for each Trust taking into consideration that flexibility may be required whilst the outpatient position recovers post-Covid. This I.TT. is for the provision of dispensing services for Outpatient, Cancer, UCC (site dependent) and ED (site dependent) attendees of ELHT and BTH. The Lot described in this advert is the same service but there is a possibility that the award may be awarded as two separate lots per Trust per supplier or the award may be made to one supplier for both Trusts.