NHS Scotland targets £10m delivery savings
29 August 2012
NHS Scotland (NHSS) is to streamline and centralise its logistics in an attempt to make them more efficient and save £10 million a year.
Sandy Agnew, NHSS logistics project implementation director, said there was a “mixed picture” on logistics across Scotland.
“The results of a review last year indicated there were opportunities for improvement in both how we were handling logistics in the NHS and in the way suppliers and distributors were moving products.”
NHSS spends about £1.2 billion...