NHS tests outsourcing for logistics
28 August 2012
The NHS Logistics Authority faces outsourcing after a major Department of Health (DoH) report called for a cull of support service bodies.
The report, Reconfiguring the Department of Health's Arm's Length Bodies, said that "the wider network of arm's length bodies (ALBs) is now too cumbersome" and that the 38 bodies should be reduced to 20.
NHS Estates faces the chop with its facilities and estate management work being farmed out to other bodies.
The report from the DoH's commercial...