A multi-million pound sexual health services contract for Kirklees will change hands.
Kirklees Council is set to reveal who will run the service on May 1.
The Examiner understands social enterprise Locala has lost the rights to operate the service and Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) has been awarded the £3.5m deal.
The council went out to tender for an integrated sexual health service last October but rejected a joint bid from Locala and CHFT.
Now it has opted to go with the hospital trust alone.
The deal cannot be officially signed off until a grace period is over, to allow challenges from rival bidders who may be unhappy with the process.
The Examiner does not know if there were any other bidders.
The council’s bid to create a more “joined up” single provider service ironically comes six months after the hospital trust lost the right to run termination of pregnancy services.
Last year a challenge from charity Marie Stopes to CHFT’s contract win for termination of pregnancy services led to a last minute change of decision by Greater Huddersfield Clinical Commissioning Group (GHCCG).
The CCG opted for Marie Stopes instead who said they could run the service for roughly half the £1.26m the hospital trust wanted.
They announced plans for a centre in Cloth Hall Street, Huddersfield.
Kirklees Council has said its revamped sexual health service, set to launch on September 1, will focus on prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies.
New processes will include testing for both chlamydia and gonorrhoea at the same time.
Currently this only happens in north Kirklees, however public health officials say chlamydia testing in south Kirklees is “better” than in north Kirklees.
Other developments will see ten Kirklees schools developed into centres of excellence for sex education and new sexual health and relationship sessions for students at Kirklees College.
