Health Procurement Strategy Programme
The health procurement strategy programme will be launched in December 2011, with Lord Philip Hunt of Kings Heath, President of the HCSA, leading the agenda.
The programme engages executives from the Department of Health, the NHS and the private sector in an independently facilitated programme of best practice and innovation sharing, focused on improving the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of procurement across the NHS.
The programme will include regular meetings addressing key issues pertinent to the transformation of health procurement and the ongoing budgetary demands of the QIPP agenda. Outputs include guidelines and exemplar blueprints that encapsulate ‘excellence in Trust procurement’.
Programme Themes in 2011-2012
The programme will address themes such as the following:
- Core technologies for better procurement
- Clinician engagemenet in procurement practice
- Supply chain transparency
- A transformation framework for procurement – development and sustainability
- Learning from the best - procurement excellence in industry and the public sector
Programme Objectives
- Identification and diffusion of best practices and innovation in health procurement
- Inform and support the definition and implementation of the DH’s procurement strategy
- Provide an environment for informal procurement benchmarking
- Identify and address ‘the NHS Trust CEO’s top five Leadership actions for procurement effectiveness’, working up and promoting a definition and blueprint of ‘excellence in Trust procurement.’
- Identify new ideas for improving performance in procurement by bringing together experts with different perspectives
Programme Benefits
- Activities are on an appropriate scale for rich, in-depth exchanges between senior people in an extended board room format, allowing everyone to contribute
- Engagements are specifically designed to draw on the knowledge and experience of the participants, ensuring the group can focus on practical solutions to common issues
- A skilled facilitator, with experience in both the public and commercial sectors, steers the sessions carefully for the benefit of all participants
- Chatham House rules allow participants to express themselves freely, leading to an open, challenging and high-quality exchange
- There is no charge for public sector members, who contribute their time, expertise and experience
- Network activities are funded by private sector members who recognise the benefits of having an independent forum where the realities of public service reform can be explored
- There are no sales pitches. Everyone is expected to contribute to finding innovative solutions to real business issues
- In order to maintain our independence, ITW does not facilitate one-to-one meetings or similar contacts between members. Nor do we sell on any of our contact information
Who is involved?
Policy makers
In the Department of Health, QIPP Procurement leads
NHS Executives
Procurement specialists from primary Trusts, acute Trusts and GP consortia, Trust chief executives, commissioning directors, finance directors, improvement programme directors and other relevant senior professionals
Private sector participants
Partners and executives from leading advisors, service and healthcare providers and suppliers
Other Stakeholders
Local government executives and leaders and others with expertise to share, and other guests as suggested by members and participants, such as academic and other national and international experts on the themes addressed.
