All Procurement articles – Page 3
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News
£600m consultancy contract advertised for New Hospital Programme
NHS England is looking to hire a new delivery partner, on a contract worth up to £600m, to support its major hospital rebuilding programme.
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News
New strategy will be led by service, not consultants, claims NHSE procurement chief
NHS England has introduced another national commercial strategy to try to get local procurement teams working more consistently.
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Expert Briefing
West Country Chronicle: ICBs learn different lessons from procurement debacle
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Podcast
HSJ Podcast: How NHSE’s new data platform will work
US firm Palantir has officially been awarded the lucrative federated data platform deal, which is one of the biggest NHS data projects in recent years.
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News
Exclusive: Dozens of new ambulances delayed after supplier goes bust
The delivery of more than 100 new ambulances to the NHS could be delayed ahead of winter after the company paid to supply them went into administration, HSJ has learned.
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National team in £600k senior management recruitment drive
NHS England’s commercial directorate is bringing in six new directors and senior managers with a combined salary package of at least £600,000 to help it deliver £1.5bn in savings over the next five years.
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News
Contract award to minister’s ex-colleague ‘clearly justified’, claims DHSC
A consultancy contract awarded to a health minister’s former colleague without being tendered was above the value threshold that would normally require a competitive process, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ Local
‘Incapable managers’ and ‘socialist NHS’ to blame for delay to £300m project, claims MP
A Conservative MP has attacked the management of his local trust and NHS bureaucracy for failing to deliver improvements to two hospitals in his constituency, despite the government allocating the schemes over £300m six years ago.
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HSJ Local
Trust names US firm as preferred bidder for new EPR
An East Anglian trust has reportedly chosen American company Epic as its new electronic patient record provider.
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Comment
Labour should prioritise value not price in NHS reforms
Lord Philip Hunt shares his insight on revolutionising NHS procurement by focussing on value-based healthcare, patient outcomes and cost efficiency
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HSJ Local
Trust pauses EPR go live amid roll out problems
A large teaching trust has delayed the launch of its new electronic patient record system, with no new date yet set.
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HSJ Partners
Four ways Crown Commercial Service is helping to maximise NHS procurement
From digital transformation and fleet to financial and estate solutions, Crown Commercial Service is helping the health sector bring power to its procurement.
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News
ICB 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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HSJ Local
ICBs must pay £1.7m for competition failure
Three integrated care boards have had to pay £1.7m to a technology firm, after commissioners manipulated a procurement, new figures reveal.
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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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News
ICB 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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News
Trust 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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News
NHSE 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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News
Every acute in ICS to use the same EPR after £44m deal
One of the last trusts in London to move away from paper records has named Oracle Cerner as its preferred electronic patient record supplier in a 10-year deal worth £44m.
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News
Cutting procurement ‘red tape’ will save £100m, says NHSE
NHS England has revealed plans to “cut red tape” in procurement by slashing the number of frameworks through which suppliers do business with the NHS.