All articles by Jack Serle – Page 6
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NewsCommissioners need only use competitive tenders in rare cases say new rules
New regulations have significantly narrowed the circumstances under which commissioners must use a competitive process to choose suppliers of healthcare services.
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NewsTeaching trust accused of unfair treatment by supplier
A major London teaching trust has seen its decision to award a five-year waste management contract challenged by an unsuccessful bidder.
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NewsICB battling legal challenge over patient transport contracts
The award of two patient transport contracts, worth a combined £42m, by an integrated care board is being challenged in court by the losing bidder.
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NewsTrusts and ICBs asked to give ‘honest’ assessment of their ‘improvement culture’
Trust leaders have been asked to “self-assess” the quality of their “improvement culture” as part of an initiative launched by NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard in the spring.
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News‘National legal services system’ proposed by NHSE
NHS England is looking to scale back spending on legal advice by rationalising the way local organisations procure and use services.
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NewsICB drops procurement legally challenged by supplier
An integrated care board has dropped its procurement of a digital system after a health technology supplier launched a legal challenge accusing the ICB of breaking purchasing rules.
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NewsTrust sued for damaging boat
An ambulance trust is being sued for £1.2m in damages after it damaged a boat off the Cornish coast, according to papers filed with the High Court.
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NewsNHSE to outsource raft of commercial functions
NHS England’s commercial directorate will outsource management of several key areas of its work, according to details of the national commissioner’s planned procurements published last week.
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NewsNational procurement chief leaves after four months
A senior NHS Supply Chain executive is abruptly leaving the organisation four months after he joined.
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NewsSupplier sues NHS Supply Chain for abandoning procurement
A UK-based manufacturer of personal protective equipment is suing NHS Supply Chain for abandoning its decision in late 2022 to award contracts to potentially supply millions of facemasks to acute and non-acute providers, after a ‘dramatic’ drop in demand.
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NewsNew panel will oversee NHS competition regime, DHSC decides
The government will set up an independent panel to oversee disputes arising from decisions made under a new provider selection regime, it said today.
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News‘Big four’ consultancy gets £9m deal to fix NHS procurement systems
The national procurement and logistics agency has signed a £9m contract with Deloitte to replace the ageing, complex and inflexible systems trusts use to order products.
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NewsTrusts to award £500m pathology contract after legal challenge dropped
A pharma and diagnostics firm has dropped its bid to reverse a decision by three acute trusts to award a multimillion pound pathology contract to a competitor.
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News£4bn contract to run NHS logistics out to tender
The procurement for a new national logistics provider has started, with NHS Supply Chain looking to sign a deal with a firm worth up to £4.4bn and potentially running for nearly 12 years.
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NewsNHSE inks £775m contract for key Microsoft software
NHS England has signed a deal worth £775m to provide local NHS organisations with Microsoft products and software for the next five years.
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HSJ LocalTrust chief resigns ahead of provider joining ‘group model’
A community trust chief executive has announced she is stepping down, ahead of a new provider group being formed with a neighbouring acute.
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NewsAround 20 trusts ‘still without electric vehicle charging points’
Around 20 trusts have not yet installed any electric vehicle charging points on their sites, HSJ analysis shows.
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NewsThree trusts taken to High Court in £475m contract row
A private provider has accused three acute trusts of breaking procurement rules over how they handled bids for a contract worth up to £475m to supply them with managed pathology services.
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NewsNHSE considers break-up of troubled back-office contract
NHS England is considering breaking up its all-encompassing primary care support services contract into sub-units when it re-procures it in 2025, according to notices published online.
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NewsNHSE begins rollout of mandatory outcomes registry
NHS and private providers have until the end of the year to start submitting all data on all surgeries that include a high-risk medical device by year-end into NHS England’s new mandatory medical device outcome registry.