... More than 200 trusts have backed a proposal by the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (Pasa) for co-ordination of £18 million-worth ... waste disposal contracts throughout the country. Pasa’s waste strategic implementation group will help to establish regional ...

Up to £400 million in government funding to NHS acute trusts could be reallocated from richer to poorer hospitals, a ... this month, the report revealed that together England’s 227 acute trusts spend £220 million a year buying medical equipment - an ...

Chancellor Gordon Brown’s budget has had an indifferent reception from the recruitment industry and the wider business community. Brown’s decision to raise National Insurance contributions by employers and employees ... acknowledging that it would have to raise taxes to give the NHS more funding to bring it up to speed with the rest of Europe. But the ...

... recently on publicly funded organisations, such as the NHS and local authorities, and their difficulties in providing adequate ... about by developing an ethos that reshapes an organisation’s attitude towards the whole supply chain. To develop such a change in culture ...

... Agents’ public-sector purchasing expertise with Belmin’s systems knowledge, and the exclusive use of its EROS purchasing management ... first contract win in open competition. Warrington Hospital NHS Trust will, in effect, be outsourcing its total procurement and supply ...

... One respondent, a senior purchasing director in the NHS, reported a 500 per cent increase in stocks held to cope with another ... carried out last week, followed warnings after September’s protest that stockpiling fuel or other goods could make the UK uncompetitive. ...

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is trading with four key suppliers on the Global Healthcare Exchange ... maintaining and updating catalogue information that’s the same for buyers and sellers.” Featured?:  ...

... on 6 November. Last year, the North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust’s partnership with outsourcing specialist SureStock won both the overall prize ...

... earlier this year.Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust confirms in a statement to Recruiter that it “worked with ... there are plans to run similar programmes across the trust’s three hospitals. The statement notes: “We are situated in a deprived ...

... can help to create local jobs for local people”. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) chair Andrew Robertson says: “As the ... the main construction phase with the adult and children’s hospitals, the opening of this new recruitment and training facility ...