NHS organisations form e-procurement network
29 August 2012
More than 50 NHS organisations last month joined forces to create the largest online purchasing system in the health service.
The NHS Trading Network will enable members to trade electronically with their suppliers through a single system, which has been outsourced to e-commerce provider UKprocure.
The 53 network members hope that by outsourcing their spend, the whole procurement process – from the initial request to invoicing – will make “substantial” but currently unspecified...