All Procurement articles – Page 8
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Expert BriefingWest Country Chronicle: One of the worst examples of NHS procurement
From Cornwall to the Cotswolds, West Country Chronicle offers essential insight into NHS matters in the South West. Contact me in confidence here.
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HSJ LocalCCG staff ‘crossed the line’ in ‘manipulating’ contract award
Three clinical commissioning groups have been fined after they “manipulated” a procurement process to award a £2m contract to a favoured supplier.
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NewsExclusive: Department of Health pays £2.2m for covid inquiry legal advice
The Department of Health and Social Care has brought in external legal support to help it prepare for the independent public inquiry into the covid pandemic.
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NewsNew single IT system to manage billions in procurement spend
Funding has been secured for a single software platform to potentially manage all NHS procurement activities, which could equate to around £30bn of spending across 80,000 suppliers.
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NewsHundreds of products out of stock amid ‘unprecedented’ supply chain problems
NHS trusts are finding hundreds of clinical and non-clinical products are out of stock with the national supply chain agency, leaving procurement teams scrambling to find alternatives and avoid gaps in supply.
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NewsExclusive: High covid rates spark blood supply ‘crisis’
The organisation which supplies blood to hospitals is in ‘crisis mode’ due to its stock falling to severely low levels, HSJ has learned.
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NewsNHS could get ‘much better deals’ by building on ‘infamous’ drugs procurement
The NHS should seek to build on its ‘infamous’ reputation for pharmaceuticals procurement, as it could be getting ‘much better deals’ on many of the goods and services it buys, a national director has said
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NewsSuppliers opt to pass on inflation costs as NHS faces £280m bill
Inflation in the cost of food, estate management and medical supplies will add an estimated £280m to NHS expenditure in 2022-23, NHS England has said.
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NewsTrust was sent ‘unfit’ ventilators at height of pandemic
A trust was supplied with ventilators that were not ‘fit for NHS purposes’ by two suppliers at the height of the first covid wave, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHSE and other agencies deny conflict of interest over procurement structures
NHS England and three other organisations have denied there were conflicts of interest in producing an endorsed list of procurement frameworks which trusts should buy goods from.
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NewsNew national ‘commercial function’ will be built ‘by the NHS for the NHS’
A new ’central commercial function’ will take command of NHS procurement strategy in an effort to improve how the service buys goods and services, NHS England chief commercial officer Jacqui Rock has told HSJ.
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NewsFour in five ICSs a long way from IT ‘convergence’
Four out of five integrated care systems are a long way off achieving the ‘convergence’ of electronic patient record systems sought by NHS England, HSJ analysis reveals.
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NewsRevealed: The 27 trusts still without an electronic patient record
Almost 30 NHS trusts do not have comprehensive electronic patient records amid a renewed push by government to get electronic systems into all NHS hospitals, according to HSJ research.
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NewsNHSE tenders £30m deal for emergency ‘surge’ support
NHS England is seeking to buy extra ‘surge’ ambulance capacity from outside the NHS, amid a crisis of record-long waits for callouts in recent months.
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NewsMajority of ICSs admit purchasing plans still work in progress two months before launch
Most integrated care systems have not appointed a procurement lead despite NHS England directing the new local bodies to have a dedicated director in place by April, an HSJ analysis suggests.
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NewsSecond NHSE tech director to join Palantir
A second NHS tech director will join a technology company which is reportedly the favourite to win a new major data contract with the health service.
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NewsBuilding order of ‘new hospitals’ revealed as £550m consultancy deals announced
Projects in Dorset and Devon are set to be the first within the government’s New Hospital Programme to agree construction contracts.
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NewsNHSE tightens control over trusts’ tech procurement
NHS England has cut the number of procurement frameworks for digital and IT products by a third, as part of a purchasing shake-up.
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NewsProcurement of PPE, diagnostics and medical devices to be in-housed by national agency
The national supply chain agency will bring management of significant areas of NHS spend in-house on a permanent basis in a major overhaul of its operating model, HSJ has been told.
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HSJ InteractiveHow has the pandemic altered NHS procurement?
The past two years have highlighted the importance of effective procurement to the NHS, changing perceptions of the function – and, in some instances, its practice