Please join us for the next webinar in our series of legal updates with Mills & Reeve, which will focus on the Procurement Bill.

Our Corporate Services team shares a handful of helpful tips for procuring external audit services, recently garnered whilst conducting market engagement.

In this short video, find out how the Alliance supports NHS trusts and ICBs with workforce requirements, as well as helping them achieve efficiencies, savings and improvements to patient care. 

As the health procurement system is politically influenced, it is important for us to keep ahead of new developments and changes in legislation that affect our ways of working.

The further funding for the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme has now been announced.

The Hub has been working collaboratively on a wound care project which has resulted in significant savings potential for one of our region’s ICBs.

We are pleased to announce that all four NHS procurement hubs, including the East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub (EOECPH), are taking part in the NHS Procurement Graduate Training Scheme.

Our Assistant Director of Procurement, Pharmacy and Healthcare Services, Joe Bassett, who is also Chair of the National Homecare Medicines Committee, has been to the Palace of Westminster to give evidence in the House of Lords Select Committee Inquiry into Homecare Medicines Services.

To celebrate 75 years of the NHS today, we spoke with Howard Rolfe, Managing Director at the Hub, to discuss his experiences with the NHS and thoughts on its future

This new framework, available to all members across the four NHS collaborative procurement partners of NHS PiP, and the wider NHS, offers a consistent way for procuring a stoma care nurse sponsorship agreement between trusts and suppliers.

The Evergreen Sustainable Supplier Assessment is an online tool designed for suppliers to engage with the NHS on their sustainability journey and to understand how to align with the NHS net zero ambition.

The East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub is pleased to announce our new Electronic Patient Record framework specifically for ambulance trusts. This framework has been endorsed by NHS Digital and Technology and offers a route to market for ambulance crew systems for electronic patient records.

The Hub have begun the process to develop a new website. We are excited to announce we will be working to create a new, dynamic website that will enable easy access to our frameworks and services. Help us to develop the site by completing our short 5 minute survey.

The Hub's Assistant Director of Procurement, Pharmacy and Healthcare Services, Joe Bassett, takes on the role of Chair of the National Homecare Medicines Committee (NHMC).

The traditional landline telephone network in the UK, the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), is due to be switched off by December 2025, with some providers ceasing service even earlier. A number of systems rely on the PSTN and as such, the potential impact to trusts is widespread.

The NHS has a big drive to stop using single use plastics with the aim of them being entirely banned from October 2023. Supporting the NHS ambition to become the world’s first carbon net zero national health system by 2045 will require big changes for the NHS and for NHS Supply Chain.

The four partner hubs of NHS Procurement in Partnership (NHS PiP) are getting ready to launch the Laundry and Linen Services Total Solutions framework in early May.  The new agreement will be available to all NHS PiP partners' members.

NHS England has recently published its NHS clinical waste strategy setting out an ambition to transform the management of clinical waste and ensuring waste is processed in the most cost-effective, safe, efficient, and sustainable way.

NHS Procurement in Partnership (NHS PiP) has been keeping abreast of progress on the Procurement Bill. Changes to the rules on public sector procurement are still making their way through Parliament. The bill could be approved this spring but the new regulations may not come into effect until spring 2024. 

The way the NHS responds to patient safety incidents will change this autumn when the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) replaces the current Serious Incident Response Framework.  A series of NHS England webinars has been scheduled to help prepare for the transition.

Please join us for the next webinar in our series of legal updates with Mills & Reeve, which will focus on the Procurement Bill.

This new national agreement has been developed for use in complex and challenging environments, unsuitable for traditional outpatient dispensary services.

Several training opportunities around these priority environmental factors in procurements are being offered by CCF at NHSE via the FutureNHS online platform.

They include webinars on carbon reduction as well as a drop-in session and a new e-learning course on net zero and social value.

We've created a Wound Imaging Solutions web page containing useful resources for members on how wound imaging works and how our framework can benefit patients.

A stakeholder group is being set up as we look towards developing a replacement framework.  The current one expires next year following a final extension.

New suppliers are now live on NHSE's Independent Investigations framework following its annual refresh of providers.

A summary of the latest framework news from the Hub's Corporate Services team.

The East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub's Business Services team has undergone a name change and is now known as Corporate Services.

Join us for a webinar, led by Mills & Reeve, on using the Health Procurement Portal and its benefits.

A national agreement giving trusts and other public bodies access to the provision of regular, reliable, managed appliance prescription services.

Coaching and mentoring are among the wide range of services available to Hub member trusts through our Training & Development Services framework. 

The AdviseInc Procurement Dashboard is an initiative that supports trusts by providing more detailed data on NHS procurements, which in turn may identify opportunities for savings.

NHS England has issued guidance on procurement of linen and laundry services as well as recommendations for actions trusts can take around rising charges.

Online drop-in sessions about Net Zero and Social Value are being hosted by NHS England.

Join the Hub on Monday 24th October for a meeting to share knowledge and experience of using the Commercial Continuous Improvement Assessment Framework (CCIAF).

Member trusts of all the partner organisations making up NHS Procurement in Partnership (NHS PiP) can access a broad range of frameworks within the Estates and Facilities Management category that can support projects from concept to completion.  We explore some of them and ways we can support you.