Guidance aimed at improving procurement across the
healthcare system has been published by the Department of Health.
‘NHS Procurement: Raising Our Game’ sets out proposed
actions for NHS trusts and the Department and focuses on taking immediate
action to start tackling six key areas for improvements:
- levers for change
- transparency and data management
- NHS standards of procurement
- leadership, clinical engagement and reducing variation
- collaboration and use of procurement partners
- suppliers, innovation and growth
This guidance is launched in advance of a procurement
strategy planned for later in 2012 that will be developed following a wider
call for evidence. It aims to start the journey to world class procurement by
identifying those issues and actions that require immediate attention in order
to lay the foundations for a fuller and further-reaching strategy later in the
year.
In support, we are also publishing NHS Standards of
Procurement, which will support trusts in understanding what good procurement
looks like and in planning their improvements at a local level. The standards can be used to identify what a
trust’s areas of strengths and weakness are in their procurement and suggest
ways in which they can start to monitor and measure improvements.
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