NHS PASA is an executive agency of the Department of Health. They work to ensure that the NHS in England makes the most effective use of its resources by getting the best possible value for money when purchasing goods and services. Over the last 5 years PASA has delivered savings of over £1 billion to the NHS in England.
HFMA is the representative body for finance staff in healthcare. Their aim is to support and promote high quality financial management in UK healthcare, helping to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of frontline services.
Collaborative hubs are aimed at ensuring cost effective purchasing and providing value for money services, which meet patients and clinical staff requirements.
Collaborative Hubs:
Procurement North East - www.pro-ne.nhs.uk
North West Collaborative Procurement Hub - www.nwcph.nhs.uk
Yorkshire and Humber Commercial Procurement Hub - www.yhcpc.nhs.uk
Resource Procurement Hub (East Midlands) - www.resource-cph.nhs.uk
Healthcare Purchasing Consortium (West Midlands) - www.hpc.nhs.uk
East of England Collaborative Procurement Hub - www.eoecph.nhs.uk
London Procurement Programme - www.lpp.nhs.uk
South East Coast Procurement Hub - www.seccph.nhs.uk
Pro-cure (South Central) - www.pro-cure.nhs.uk
Solent Supplies Team - www.porthosp.nhs.uk
IPS is an international organisation, based in the UK, serving the purchasing and supply profession. Dedicated to promoting good practice, they provide a wide range of services for the benefit of members and the wider business community. The company provides a range of information on training, professional resources, and training and events.
The Health Care Supply Association is dedicated to promoting the role and importance of supplies staff in cost-efficient supply chain management. The Association has a formal constitution and works through a Council made up of representatives from each of its Branches and promotes the work of procurement and logistics staff working in health care at all levels.
The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) is an independent office of HM Treasury, established to help Government deliver best value from its spending. The OGC works with the central Government departments and other public sector organisations to ensure the achievement of effective public spending.
The Association of British Healthcare Industries (ABHI) is the lead, and largest, industry association for the medical technology sector in the UK. They represent companies whose output makes up approximately 80% percent of the industry’s total.
The British Healthcare Trades Association (BHTA) is the UK's oldest and largest healthcare association (founded in 1917). Its membership - of some 380 companies employing over 17,000 people - comprises both large and small businesses across the many non-pharmaceutical sectors of the healthcare industry; manufacturing, supplying and serving those with special physical needs and specialist healthcare areas.
The Centre consists of permanent and contracted research staff, administrative staff and post graduate research students, located within the School of Management. They research the use of different approaches to supplies and purchasing working with both private and public companies to come up with new innovative ways for carrying out efficient and effective purchasing and supplies management.
The NHS Plan recognises the need for the NHS to develop as an organisation, with innovation as an important part of growing and improving the NHS. The hub network was set up to support NHS Trusts and Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) by identifying and developing innovations that will benefit patients and society as a whole.
The 9 Hubs will be listed below:
NHS Innovations East - www.hee.org.uk
NHS Innovations East Midlands - www.em-nhs-hub.org
NHS Innovations London - www.nhsinnovationslondon.com
NHS Innovations North - www.nhsinnovationsnorth.org.uk
NHS Innovations North West - www.nic.nhs.uk
NHS Innovations South East - www.nhsinnovations-southeast.com
NHS Innovations South West - www.nisw.co.uk
NHS Innovations West Midlands - www.midtech.org.uk
NHS Innovations Yorkshire and Humber (Medipex) - www.medipex.co.uk
The NHS Technology Adoption Centre was created to increase the uptake of new technology in all areas of the NHS. Their aim is to work with partners to identify excellent technologies which will improve healthcare in the NHS and to promote greater cooperation between all organisations involved in the development and use of healthcare technologies in the NHS.
CDHPP supports individuals, teams and organisations to meet the challenges and make the breakthroughs necessary to deliver a high quality healthcare service. CDHPP offer programmes built on up-to-date evidence, designed to help companies working in, or within the NHS, think and work in different ways. The principle of public value and a commitment to improve public services is central to their philosophy.
Part of the Department of health, the Ministerial Medical Technology Strategy Group was established in accordance with the recommendation of the Healthcare Industries Task Force (HITF) Strategic Implementation Group (SIG). The Group takes forward all SIG recommendations and provides a strategic forum for joint discussion of other issues of importance.
Part of the Purchasing and Supplies Agency (PASA) CEP collates and supports evidence gathering to assist in the adoption of innovative technologies in health and social care. CEP underpins purchasing decisions by providing objective evidence to support the uptake of useful, safe, innovative products and related procedures in health and social care, covering all medical devices, patient safety technology, products on market or near market (post-CE marking) and all products used in health and social care.
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