NHS IT chiefs set the stage for a year of digital transformation as Digital Health Rewired returns to London
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust is one of the latest hospitals to benefit from NHS Supply Chain’s support for improvements in continence care
Emma Dunn looks at how trusts can increase their diagnostic capacity, replace old equipment and continue to make savings
Health Business has spoken to Stephanie Gibney, at NHS Supply Chain, about transparent dealing in healthcare
LPP's Laura Quirk outlines examples of how effective procurement and maximising purchasing power can produce significant savings across the NHS
The NHS Supply Chain discusses best practice for managing medical equipment in a financially constrained environment
Further, Faster is a new online resource which shares practical ways to overcome the difficulties faced by NHS organisations and small technology companies in working together.
Changing the way that the workforce is managed can help produce ‘significant savings’ for the NHS, an efficiency review of hospitals in England discovered. But are the savings achievable and when will they show? Health Business investigates
Streamlining the purchasing of basics and involving clinical staff in decision making all add up to a more efficient and cost-effective way of buying, writes David Pierpoint of the NHS Supply Chain
The NHS Supply Chain, the Royal College of Nursing and the Clinical Procurement Specialist Network have joined forces to give nursing staff a say in how trusts purchase and utilise key clinical supplies, using their knowledge and experience
The NHS Supply Chain’s Jennie Brice-Boutard examines how the Department for Health’s eProcurement Strategy will use technology to improve NHS procurement, deliver savings and increase transparency.
The UK’s banking, manufacturing and retailing sectors have achieved procurement efficiencies through utilising technology solutions. So what can the NHS learn from this? Chris Doyle from independent global supply chain standards organisation GS1 UK explores how shared data solutions can enable NHS Trusts to drive efficiency in procurement and focus resource on quality patient care
The NHS is tasked with a difficult challenge; improving care standards whilst at the same time, reducing the amount of money spent on healthcare procurement. The launch of the Department of Health’s procurement strategy in August is the government’s view on how this seemingly impossible challenge can be achieved. NHS Supply chain examines what the strategy means for the NHS
The Government Procurement Service (GPS) is working closely with the healthcare sector to help it save when procuring non‑medical and non-clinical goods and services
Shaun McCarthy, director, Action Sustainability, and chair of the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012, ponders the shift in focus from lowest price to consideration of wider impacts
John Wilkinson, director general of the Association of British Healthcare Industries, discusses the UK medical device market and the HITF report
