All Procurement articles – Page 47
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HSJ PartnersE-procurement strategy is crucial to the modern NHS
The service now has a sense of direction
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HSJ PartnersBoards have to show strong leadership in procurement
Modernising the process is essential
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HSJ LocalPreferred bidders named in Bristol mental health tender
COMMERCIAL: A mental health trust which faced losing business worth £30m due to quality concerns has been named as the preferred bidder for the main lot in a highly contested tender for the services.
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HSJ LocalBristol CCG plans £250m community services tender
Bristol Clinical Commissioning Group has approved plans to tender the city’s community health services and said it anticipates “significant” interest in the contract from providers across the country.
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NewsAnalysis: Increase in procurement and competition challenges
Providers are increasingly willing to use the procurement, patient choice and competition regulations to challenge decisions, experts have stated, after HSJ analysis identified six of the first legal challenges to emerge.
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NewsFTs urged to resist procurement price increases
The Department of Health and Monitor have written to foundation trusts encouraging them to take a tough stance towards suppliers who attempt to impose “blanket inflationary price increases”.
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HSJ Local
Serco procurement bid rejected by trust
Lewisham and Greenwich Trust has rejected a bid from Serco to provide its procurement services after concluding that it would not provide value for money, following more than a year of negotiations.
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HSJ Local
Eye clinic plans paused following King's complaint
Plans for Moorfields Eye Hospital Foundation Trust to open an eye clinic at a hospital in Kent have been paused after another trust complained that no procurement process had taken place.
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SupplementsTesting times for pathology − an HSJ supplement
Integrating the latest advances into the patient care pathway
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SupplementsPathology conference: view from the panel and delegates
Asking the big questions at the HSJ/Roche pathology conference
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SupplementsCapital funding: The case for equipment investment
Weighing up competing spending decisions
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NewsMonitor watching CCG procurement decisions 'closely'
Monitor is closely observing the decisions clinical commissioning groups are making about transforming community services contracts, its chief executive has told HSJ.
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NewsWorkforce system tender could be worth £1bn
A centrally procured “workforce management system” is set to be made available to NHS organisations as part of a government tendering exercise worth up to £1bn, it has emerged.
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Blogs
Contract planning, or last minute scramble?
Last minute deals, plans that nobody believes in… does the annual contracting round have to be like this?
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NewsCCG backs down in patient involvement procurement row
A clinical commissioning group leading one of the most high profile procurements in the NHS has agreed to publish commercially sensitive documents following a threat of legal action.
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SupplementsSpecial report: Procurement regulation is a bone of contention
Section 75 has created waves in the last year
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NewsMcKesson to re-apply for staff record contract
Healthcare technology company McKesson UK has said it intends to re-apply for the contract to administer the NHS’s human resources and staff payroll system after its current contract expires in 2015.