NHS eProcurement strategy – Department of Health
Reprt providing details of actions to improve NHS data and information as part of the NHS Procurement Development Programme, which aims to help the NHS save £1.5 billion by the financial year 2015 to 2016.
The document also sets out how e-procurement can better support the NHS procurement processes that manage transactions and pricing with suppliers.
Wanted: an even Better Care Fund – The King’s Fund
The King’s Fund’s new analysis of serious and growing financial pressures in the NHS should serve as a wake-up call to politicians of all parties. Analysis shows that with an increasing number of providers in deficit, and the prospect of a further seven years of no growth in funding, the NHS is rapidly approaching a major crisis.
A crucial issue facing the NHS today is how the health service can balance the imperative to provide better care with the need to reduce costs overall.
This briefing brings together the views of NHS leaders and highlights the key messages arising from a roundtable held at the end of last year. These messages will be of interest to other NHS leaders who are tackling similar challenges, the national bodies and politicians supporting them in doing so, and members of the public who need to engage in this important debate
How to make the NHS payment and pricing system work more effectively in 2015/16? – Kings Fund Health Management and Policy alert
Foundation Trust Network –
This briefing looks ahead at the changes NHS foundation trusts and trusts need in next year’s payment and pricing system to help them better manage the financial risks expected in 2015/16. It highlights ten issues NHS England and Monitor need to take into account in setting this year’s payment and pricing system and five enablers for ensuring this process works effectively.