It’s not just about saving time and money, it’s about getting the NHS back to working for patients. From reducing waiting times to improving the care you provide, your buying decisions have the power to make a difference.
Use our commercial expertise, industry experience and national buying power to secure procurement deals that provide benefits for your Integrated Care System.
We collaborated with NHS England to provide ProCure 23 as part of the Construction Works and Associated Services 2 procurement framework. This means we can ensure that NHS capital works adopt:
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 comprehensive 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 provision 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.
Use 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 to meet patient waiting time targets and reduce backlogs. Our providers have been approved by the NHS and therefore are suited to the NHS.
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.
Two months into her new role as CEO, Sam Ulyatt sat down with Civil Service World to talk all things procurement
Read more about Our new CEO, Sam Ulyatt sets out her vision and priorities for CCSSmall businesses benefited from an increase of £370 million in central government spend over the last year through Crown Commercial Service (CCS).
Read more about More than £3.5 billion of central government spend given to small businesses in the last yearCCS has become the first UK framework provider to achieve Gold Standard status on a Government verification scheme designed to improve the procurement of construction projects for the public sector
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