All Procurement articles – Page 21
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Expert Briefing
Following the Money: Ignored STPs get capital injection
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
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News
NHS takeover of treatment centre sparks tax and pension fears among medical staff
The Nottingham Treatment Centre may face a shortage of medical staff as a result of some doctors’ concerns that its takeover by the NHS could have negative tax and pension implications for them.
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Comment
Jackie Daniel: Why Newcastle FT has declared a "climate emergency"
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust is the first NHS trust in the country to declare a climate emergency and has committed to work with its civic partners to become carbon neutral by 2040, notes Dame Jackie Daniel
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HSJ Local
CCG awards £1.2bn community services contract
A social enterprise has seen off two other rivals to win a £1.2bn community health contract aimed at bringing services together under one provider.
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HSJ Local
NHS legal threat scuppers private firm’s £25m deal
A procurement process which named a private provider as the preferred bidder for contracts worth £25m has been abandoned, after NHS trusts threatened legal action.
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News
£5bn care problem being ‘ignored’, warns national lead
The NHS is ignoring the £5bn cost pressure stemming from wound care, the national wound care strategy lead has warned.
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News
‘System issue’ leaves trusts in the dark over savings from flagship project
NHS trusts do not yet know how much they can expect in savings from a new national procurement model thanks to a “system issue”.
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News
Leaked blueprint reveals plan to centralise NHS procurement
The NHS’s buying power for goods and services worth up to £10bn could be taken away from individual trusts and placed in central teams, under proposals leaked to HSJ.
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Expert Briefing
Following the Money: The future of NHS procurement revealed
HSJ’s expert briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black.
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News
Review found ‘significant concerns’ about conflicts at CCG
A clinical commissioning group has been criticised for how it handled potential conflicts of interest when it handed out contracts to organisations owned by its own GPs.
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HSJ Local
Council chief to lead city’s ‘integrated care provider’
The chief executive of a city council which had previously suspended its involvement in an integrated care system has been appointed to one of its leadership posts.
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News
NHS ditches popular savings tool for new in-house version
NHS trusts have been told to switch from a widely-praised price comparison tool to a new in-house version in a bid to ramp up procurement savings.
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News
CCGs' IVF bill to increase after cost-cutting decision backtracked
Four clinical commissioning groups which were planning to cut costs by reducing the number of IVF cycles they fund will now face an increased bill, after rowing back on the decision.
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News
Whistleblower was ‘bullied to protect CCG chair’
The governing body of a clinical commissioning group bullied their head of governance in an attempt to protect their chair, who had breached a conflict of interest rule, an investigation has found.
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HSJ Local
Revealed: Impact of private provider's 'hard exit' from contract
Patients will see their treatment delayed by a private provider’s “hard exit” from a major treatment centre after a clinical commissioning group chose not to extend its contract for a smoother transition, HSJ can reveal.
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News
NHSI efficiency chief joins Deloitte seven months after £400,000 contract award
A senior manager working in NHS Improvement’s efficiency team will become a director at Deloitte, seven months after he was part of a panel that awarded a contract to the firm for help on a major shake-up of NHS procurement.
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HSJ Awards
A shared vision of delivering services
Sodexo worked with the University Hospitals of North Midlands Trust to put the patient at the heart of all decisions and won the 2018 HSJ Award for Partnership of the Year
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HSJ Awards
HSJ Value Awards 2019: Financial or procurement initiative of the year
Winner Chelsea and Westminster and Royal Marsden Shared Procurement Service: Standardisation of wound care formulary Standardising the wound care products used across six acute, three community and a mental health trust in North West London has yielded annual savings of £840,000 without impacting on quality. A clinically-led selection process was ...
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HSJ Local
Private supplier drops NHS contract with just five days’ notice
A troubled private company has terminated a contract to provide dermatology services two months early and at very short notice, HSJ has learned.
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Comment
NHS England bid to change CCG tendering rules could 'make things worse'
David Furness says that NHS England needs to rethink its proposals to legally change procurement rules as they are based on incorrect information