NHS England has grand ambitions for changing how the health service buys around £17bn of non-NHS goods and services.
The plan is for procurement to be based at the level of integrated care systems. The ICS footprints will be the new base level for procurement activity, rather than individual providers. The idea is this brings economies of scale and cuts duplication and variation in the procurement process.
In practice, it means local trust teams are combining forces with neighbours, writing a procurement strategy to cover their ICS, appointing an ICS procurement lead, aligning their procurement systems and sharing commercial information.
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