“I ensure that we provide our health customers with cost-effective buying solutions, expert knowledge and excellent customer service. By working together, we can understand your needs and create solutions suited to you – now and in the future.”
Stuart Watkins, Strategy Manager for Health
With NHS budgets and resources more squeezed than ever, buying products and services is no easy task. By working with us, you can take some of the pressure off. We focus on saving you time and money on procurement, allowing you to get on with what matters most – delivering safe, effective and efficient patient care.
How you can benefit:
How, where and when patient care is given is changing. There is a natural evolution towards smart healthcare services, where technology is embedded across clinical pathways and the digital patient is the new normal. It is vital that our NHS health services, staff and patients are ready for this. Because ultimately, smarter healthcare means better quality, more efficient and safer patient care.
At CCS, our technology experts are here to help you embrace your trust’s digital transformation journey, and develop a robust technology procurement strategy.
We’ve put together a step-by-step guide to buying digital transformation solutions in the NHS. We explore the 3 main phases, with a clear breakdown of the programme stages and projects you will go through along the way.
With constant change in science and technology, our approach to healthcare is always evolving. We are here to help you adopt and make use of these technologies’ full potential, for the benefit of patients and your staff. Transform your delivery of care with our market insight and category expertise and digitise every service across your organisation with our team’s support.
Focusing on sustainability and price, we can help you source the technology you need, from data centres to virtual wards.
Tap into our buying power and access sustainable solutions for your estates. We provide specialist services, such as electricity, all the way up to holistic community hub refreshments, allowing you to increase your health care service and bed capacity.
Along with the opportunity to work with our health estates experts, you will be supported throughout the buying process to ensure you make the most of every pound spent.
We understand that sustainability has a large role to play in the future of the NHS. Our decarbonisation solutions have been designed to help you work towards your NHS Green Plan targets. With a wide range of carbon net zero solutions available, from energy and electric vehicles solutions to hardware and data centre services, we are here to help.
Our category experts are on hand to guide you through what you can do for your decarbonisation targets.
Maintain, adapt or buy your vehicles through our fleet services while we support you in achieving value for money and keeping to carbon net zero targets. We also offer services such as electric charging infrastructure, fleet management and staff salary sacrifice schemes, to ensure that your total fleet needs are met.
Our financial services offering is strongly tied to social value initiatives and provides you with saving, generating and recovering money options. With the power to strengthen supply chains and support your local communities, we are here to help.
We work with regional NHS procurement hubs as the NHS Workforce Alliance. The alliance’s purpose is to provide meaningful workforce supply solutions to the NHS, such as international recruitment, non-clinical recruitment and workforce improvement services.
The NHS Workforce Alliance’s priority is the NHS, and we work hard to ensure we offer the best, well-suited solutions.
As part of the NHS Workforce Alliance, we can help you retain, invest in and grow a sustainable workforce that has the required flexibility, capacity and capability to meet the future population health care needs for your integrated care system.
Get access to insourced services to support the provision of healthcare you may need in order to meet patient waiting time targets and reduce backlogs. Our providers have been approved by the NHS and therefore are suited to the NHS.
We collaborated with NHS England to deliver ProCure 23 as part of the Construction Works and Associated Services 2 procurement framework. This means we can ensure that NHS capital works adopt:
Our new Procurement Essentials series covers a wide range of topics to help demystify the procurement process including the basics of frameworks, effective contract management, how to evaluate bids, and how to write a specification.
We’ll be continuing to add new articles every month, sharing our top tips and guidance to help you save time, maximise every pound and bring power to your procurement.
You can now find all of our Procurement Essentials articles in one place.
Watch the short video to learn all about our Procurement Essentials series. You can also view the transcript.
From cost improvement plans to individual operation needs, we can support your health organisations. Our solutions and category experts are here to act as your anchor institution.
As your cost improvement partner for non clinical common goods and services, your Integrated Care System can benefit from our category expertise, market insight, spend and contract analysis.
NHS Trusts wish to act as Anchor Institutions in accordance with the NHS Long Term Plan. Our low value and Dynamic Purchasing Systems (DPS) allow local suppliers to join at any time.
Leverage our national buying power and benefit from our free aggregation service, where you can achieve significant savings.
Your buying decisions have the power to boost your local economy, make our society fairer, strengthen communities and make our future greener. We are helping you do this by building modern slavery prevention, social value and sustainability into our commercial agreements.
In this blog, we discuss the importance of digital skills within public sector organisations. We explain ways of retaining digital skills and closing the gap to support your digital transformation.
Read more about Closing the digital skills gap to support digital transformationIn this blog, we unpack some of the key government publications relating to data, so you know what to consider when buying data and analytics software and services.
Read more about Buying data and analytics services – playbooks, policy and strategy simplifiedIn this blog Kellie Drummond shares her top tips for using the Records Information Management, Digital Solutions and Associated Services framework (RM6175)
Read more about Top tips for buying records information management servicesOur LinkedIn Health Community has been created for customers to join the conversation and access all things health in CCS, including the latest updates, framework information and industry insights.
We are working to drive industry change in support of the government’s health strategy. From supporting your localised green plan, to digital transformation, our community can help guide your way.
Join the community and comment, ask questions and tell us how we can help you add power to your procurement.
We will discuss the implications of the Social Value Act on public sector buyers and the growing demand for social value through contracts.
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Access webinarIn 2019 the UK became the first major economy to pass laws to end its contribution to global warming by 2050. Watch our webinar to find out how CCS can help you on this journey.
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