Chop swap
April 9, 2013
The patron saint of purchasers takes a look at the month’s more unlikely business tales. (more…)
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Finding translation
February 28, 2013
National newspapers recently reported that Polish is now the second language in the UK. This fact inspired a lot of articles written from numerous viewpoints: the problem of the influx of migrants to Great Britain, pressure on public services like education and healthcare, positives and negatives posed to the job market, the changing nature of local communities and cultural tensions to name but a few. (more…)
Paperless health service open to criticism
January 16, 2013
Today health secretary Jeremy Hunt will call for the NHS to be paperless by 2018.
As well as saving the NHS billions of pounds a year through better use of IT, this is part of a move to give people access
to their health records online. (more…)
A fair deal for the NHS
January 3, 2013
We recently published a brief report into price variation with Peto, the product and price comparison website for the NHS. The results showed trusts across England are paying over the odds for everyday products, costing the taxpayer an unnecessary £500 million each year.
The conclusion we drew was that for long-term efficiency the NHS needs to be assured of ‘fair prices’ (among other things). (more…)
Are we asking the impossible of public sector buyers?
July 20, 2012
Some procurement projects are becoming increasingly more complex and there are a number of good reasons for this. (more…)
No, minister
June 20, 2012
Tucked away in Tuesday’s publication by Francis Maude MP of the latest Civil Service Reform Plan was an apparently innocuous proposal in chapter two about improving the quality of policymaking. The government is planning to spend £1 million in a three-year pilot starting next month on “contestable” policymaking, whereby ministers can “commission external policy development (for example, by academics and think-tanks)”. (more…)
Rising to the challenge
March 21, 2012
I had the pleasure to attend the second day of Procurex National in Birmingham, at which the Rt Hon Francis Maude MP set the scene for the next few years in public sector procurement. And what a scene he set. A powerful speaker with a lot of charisma, he sounded like he meant business in more than a figure-of-speech way. (more…)
An unhealthy position
February 8, 2012
Dr Hamish Meldrum, head of the British Medical Association (BMA), said in a New Statesman article in January that said he “is anxious that the principle of ‘universality’ and ‘comprehensiveness’ on which the NHS was founded, are imperilled by the fantasy of The Health and Social Care Bill and the creation of a utopian marketplace in which private providers compete with state care”. (more…)
A healthy development for NHS buyers
January 19, 2012
At Barts and The London NHS Trust we constantly try to ensure best value in everything we purchase, but it is a mammoth task.
While 87 per cent of our influenceable non-pay spend of £195 million is covered by contracts, we need to do much more to ensure we have value for money. (more…)
EU procurement proposals are an iceberg that will sink UK reforms
January 12, 2012
Just before Christmas, the EU sneaked out proposals for a new public procurement directive. You could lose the will to live in trying to digest the hundreds of pages of draft new laws. While some of it sounds good, the devil is in the detail. But the net effect will be to sink a series of flagship policies from the coalition government. For instance: (more…)
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