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Community elective services contracts

UK public sector · 107 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
107
Last 12 months
Median contract
£232k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£88.7m
92 of 104 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
37
Suppliers
101

BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned

What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most community elective services contracts took 15% of them (16 of 107).
  • Contracts awarded per quarter fell 55% from the first half of the period to the second.
  • The median contract, £232k, is 2.2 times the median across healthcare contracts (£106k).
  • North West had the most contracts: 28, or 26% of the total.

Who buys community elective services

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB14 contracts
  2. 2NHS Surrey and Sussex Integrated Care Board13 contracts
  3. 3NHS North West London ICB8 contracts
  4. 4NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board6 contracts
  5. 5NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board6 contracts
  6. 6NHS Devon Integrated Care Board6 contracts
  7. 7NHS North East London Integrated Care Board5 contracts
  8. 8NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board4 contracts
  9. 9NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board4 contracts
  10. 10NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board3 contracts

Top community elective services contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1DMC Healthcare4 contracts
  2. 2MSI Reproductive Choices4 contracts
  3. 3Dermwise Limited3 contracts
  4. 4Amicus Health3 contracts
  5. 5Patient First Social Enterprise2 contracts
  6. 6Islington GP Federation2 contracts
  7. 7Peninsula Health LLP2 contracts
  8. 8Medinet2 contracts
  9. 9Health Harmonie Limited2 contracts
  10. 10Vernova Healthcare Community Interest Company2 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

20Q4 2025*51Q1 202613Q2 202623Q3 20260Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 105 · Scotland 1 · Wales 1

North West28London18South East17South West10North East8East of England8Yorkshire and The Humber7East Midlands5West Midlands4Wales1Scotland1

What is included

Tier 2 outpatient and minor procedure services delivered in the community for GP referrals, such as gynaecology, urology, cardiology, ENT, carpal tunnel, minor surgery and no-scalpel vasectomy, often led by GPs with a special interest.

  • GP with special interest services
  • Community gynaecology, urology and cardiology
  • Community ENT
  • Carpal tunnel, hernia and minor surgery
  • Ring pessary clinics
  • Community no-scalpel vasectomy
  • Vasectomy service contracts
  • Community, outsourced and tele-dermatology services, including skin cancer triage and dermatology referral management

What is not included

  • MSK and pain services (hlt.comm.msk-and-pain-services)
  • Practice-level enhanced services (hlt.primary.gp-enhanced-services)
  • Hospital elective activity (hlt.acute.independent-sector-elective-activity)
  • Community eye care (hlt.primary.community-eye-care)
  • Termination of pregnancy (hlt.acute.termination-of-pregnancy)
  • Podiatry (hlt.comm.community-therapy-rehabilitation)

Often bought by the same buyers