Trust ditches outsourced purchasing
28 August 2012
Hospital chiefs in north-west England have brought an outsourced procurement function back in-house just five years after it was taken over by a private firm.
North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust hopes to save 3 per cent of its annual spend by combining two formerly separate purchasing operations in a single department.
Warrington and Halton Hospitals were separate entities but merged into a single trust in 2001. The purchasing department at Warrington had been outsourced two years previously.
After the merger it...