Decision details
Enhanced Community Vaccination Programme – Direct Award
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
The purpose of the report is to recommend a Direct Award to the
Tower Hamlets GP Care Group for the delivery of an enhanced
Covid-19 community vaccination programme offering a wider range of
clinics at community venues, targeted outreach clinics for
vulnerable & hard to reach groups, and regular deployment of
the mobile vaccination bus to areas of low vaccine uptake. The
costs of this programme will be met by the ring fenced
‘Control Outbreak Management Fund’ (COMF) and
‘Protect’ grants and will not draw on the
Council’s revenue budget. The NHS will continue to fund the
supply of vaccine.
Decision:
[A date was corrected in the recommendation.]
DECISION
1. To agree to make a Direct Award of a contract for the delivery of the
borough’s Community Vaccination Programme to Tower Hamlets GP Care Group for the period 1st February 2022 to 31st January 2023.
2. To note the specific equalities considerations as set out in Paragraph 4.1 set out in the report
Action by:
CORPORATE DIRECTOR, HEALTH, ADULTS AND COMMUNITY (D. RADLEY)
(Joint Director of Integrated Commissioning (W. Tomsett)
.
Report author: Yasmin Ashley
Publication date: 11/02/2022
Date of decision: 09/02/2022
Decided at meeting: 09/02/2022 - Cabinet
Effective from: 19/02/2022
Accompanying Documents:
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