All Procurement articles – Page 12
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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
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NewsCCGs secure ‘significant’ payment from firm over collapsed outsourcing
A long-running legal wrangle over a failed outsourced service has been settled, with a payout to the clinical commissioning groups involved, the CCGs have said.
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NewsTrusts locked into Russian gas contracts for another year
Several NHS trusts will remain locked into contracts with Russian energy giant Gazprom until April 2023, HSJ understands.
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NewsHealth leaders hit out at firms for continuing Russia links
Simon Stevens and Jeremy Hunt have hit out at companies with NHS links which continue to trade with Russia.
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NewsCovid inquiry will examine NHS ‘capacity and resilience’
The NHS’ ‘preparedness, initial capacity and the ability to increase capacity, and resilience’ will be among the areas examined by the UK covid-19 public inquiry, the government announced today.
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NewsDitching Russian gas could leave the NHS with a huge bill
The health secretary’s order for the NHS to excise Russian and Belarusian firms from its supply chain this week came with an acknowledgement that it may not be immediately possible to end contracts with suppliers.
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NewsGovernment’s £750m bill for storing PPE revealed
Ministers spent £755.8m storing personal protective equipment over the first year and a half of the pandemic, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsHealth secretary calls on NHS to stop buying Russian gas
The health secretary has told the NHS to stop using the UK arm of Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom as a gas supplier.
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NewsICSs asked to ‘converge’ their electronic patient record systems
Integrated care systems have been asked to set out plans for a single or ‘converged’ electronic patient record by NHS England’s new transformation directorate, HSJ understands.
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NewsRussian-owned energy firm supplies at least 11 NHS trusts
At least 11 trusts have paid just over £4m to a Russian government-owned energy supplier in the current financial year, while 17 paid the company £17m the year before, HSJ analysis shows.
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NewsDHSC rebukes NHS staff for misusing procurement system
The government has rebuked NHS staff for misusing its e-procurement system Atamis to ‘test supplier experience’.
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NewsGovernment reveals details of plans to scale back NHS competition
The government has set out its plans to scale back competition rules for healthcare contracts, after adopting proposals put forward by NHS England.
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NewsTrust drops £310m ‘centre of excellence’ construction deal
A trust has scrapped a plan to build eight operating theatres in partnership with a devices supplier, part of a deal worth up to £310m, because of the ‘impact of covid’.
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NewsNHS agency paid millions to firm owned by director
NHS Digital paid at least £3m to a small tech firm which was part owned by one of its executive directors, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsSupply chain problems and EU exit delay key tech and building projects
The impact of Brexit and continuing disruption to global supply chains have been cited by several trusts as causing delays or issues for crucial capital projects.