Event Partners

As part of the NHS, the Alliance is uniquely placed to support your workforce strategy. Our comprehensive workforce service extends beyond our procurement agreements that enable the compliant supply of agency, international and bank staff. We also run a rigorous programme of worker compliance audits aligned to NHS Employer standards so you can use our supply agreements with confidence. Our workforce expertise, supplier relationship management, and in-depth data insights all provide valuable resources, and our team of regional workforce specialists will work alongside you to deliver innovative, tailored operational solutions at department, trust or ICS level. We can help implement workforce strategies to overcome current challenges such as attracting new staff, managing staff banks, retaining and developing your existing workforce, plus topical issues such as eliminating off-framework spending and reducing price cap breaches. We are the only NHS England-approved framework provider for workforce that is wholly public-owned and has no profit incentive. As an NHS organisation ourselves, our sole focus is to support its patient services, build talent and secure resources for the long term. Find out more: workforcealliance.nhs.uk

NHS Commercial Solutions is a collaborative procurement organisation providing customers with procurement and commercial expertise across a comprehensive range of products and services. Since its formation in 2007, NHS Commercial Solutions has been a go-to provider of procurement and commercial services for the NHS and wider public sector. The organisation is fully NHS owned and funded with every penny saved going back into the NHS. Leveraging expertise, NHS Commercial Solutions focuses on getting the best value for customers in both price and quality outcomes. Although based in the South of England it serves customers nationwide. The organisation is celebrating its 17th year in business and has saved over £300m since its inception, based on year one project savings alone. With a proven track record of improving quality standards, NHS Commercial Solutions continuously deliver, always striving to save time and budget for the NHS and public sector organisations.

Up and down the country we’re investing in the future of our NHS. The commitment to build new hospitals forms part of the Government’s wider Health Infrastructure Plan, a long term, rolling programme of strategic investment in health and care buildings, estates, and equipment. The new hospitals will result in outdated infrastructure being replaced by facilities for both staff and patients that are on the cutting edge of modern technology, innovation and sustainability.

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) provide expert, flexible procurement services that drive best value and best practice, with sustainability and social value built-in: - Commercial Delivery Partner services, providing tailored commercial and strategic procurement support. - End-to-end, Enhanced P2P to deliver efficiencies and eliminate costly, time-consuming manual tasks. - Framework agreements that offer a compliant route to market, with typical savings of up to 15%. - Carbon Mapping Specialist Services, providing data insights to drive positive change. To find out more, contact sbs.hello@nhs.net

Established in 2007, and wholly owned by the NHS, NHS North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative (NOE CPC) provides collaborative and bespoke procurement solutions to the NHS and other public sector organisations. Through category expertise and harnessing our collective buying power we delivers comprehensive, compliant and innovative procurement solutions which save the NHS money. Our award-winning procurements include ready to access framework agreements, bespoke project support and free to access agreements.

The East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub (the Hub) is a not-for-profit organisation that works in partnership and on behalf of the NHS to drive value and efficiencies and ultimately, improve patient care.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust includes the Countess of Chester Hospital – a 550-bed hospital which provides the full range of acute and specialist services, and Ellesmere Port Hospital – a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility. In January 2022, the Trust agreed to take a lease on Tarporley War Memorial Hospital which is located 12 miles outside Chester in the village of Tarporley. The Trust began refurbishing the site in early 2022 in preparation to utilise the hospital as a base for community-based services to serve the local rural population from April 2022 onwards.

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage. Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust have over 250 years of experience caring for our community. Its history involves Florence Nightingale caring for casualties from D Day, advances in plastic surgery and the treatment of burns, spinal injuries and innovation in rehabilitation.

We are uniquely owned collectively by all our members, as opposed to one organisation. This affords our members the benefit of equal status and input into our vision, structure, products and services through a series of membership forums and the governance of a member-led Steering Board. As a trusted advisor, we align priorities with national and regional agendas, including the NHS Long Term Plan, the Central Commercial Function (CCF) and the move to Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and Integrated Care Systems (ICSs). We collaborate with our members to provide local, regional and pan-London opportunities that bring rewards in sharing of good practice, leveraging common needs and spending power and working together towards shared aims, all of which develops relationships, knowledge, and ultimately supports the whole health system and economy. NHS LPP delivers the services that help hospitals to run efficiently including business intelligence, clinical digital solutions, workforce, medicines, estates, facilities and corporate services, professional services, sustainability and social value, procurement shared services, business intelligence and systems enablement. We support our members and other trusts to make sustainable decisions that help keep our money in the NHS and invested where it matters - on our valuable frontline staff, services and most importantly, patients.

HealthTrust Europe is a Trusted Procurement Partner that achieves operational efficiencies, delivering innovation and strengthens provider performance. Our extensive range of contracts and services, coupled with our established reputation, empowers you to achieve continuous efficiencies and cost savings in procurement. With a strong track record of delivering healthcare-led collaboration with strategic procurement solutions that address healthcare delivery and improved outcomes, we work closely to augment your local team(s) as a trusted procurement partner delivering contracts that drive innovation, deliver value, and, most importantly, improve patient care. We understand the challenges that our healthcare partners are facing and how this reflects into the delivery of strategic procurement: Managing the backlog in elective care and government targets for recovery; Working within tight budgetary constraints to deliver services optimally; Engaging and collaborating within Integrate Care Systems (‘ICS’) to optimise the delivery of high-quality health and care services across systems; Harnessing the power of Provider Collaboratives and place-based partnerships; Facing workforce challenges and safe staffing levels to develop the right resourcing solutions to maintain services, increase capacity and to ensure staff wellbeing; Optimising the power of technology to deliver digitisation, innovation and to increase accessibility of health records for patients; Navigating a challenging supply chain to ensure that you have access to the right products, services and solutions to deliver services; Procurement resource pressures with a far-reaching agenda of local/system workplans and national initiatives to navigate; Managing cost improvement programmes against a backdrop of inflationary cost pressures and resource constraints to identify and deliver financial targets; and Using available PO/AP services to interpret data into market intelligence and therein to develop it into predictive opportunities and useable insights. As a health and care-focused organisation, we can help with navigating these challenges to create opportunities, improvements and contingency options that support with delivering your targets. We offer a wide range of services including free to access framework agreements for NHS, wider public sector, and independent sector providers to enable your organisation to buy the goods, services, and solutions needed with confidence. HealthTrust Europe can help to increase procurement capacity, develop data insights and navigate complex areas of spend, augmenting your local team as a partner to deliver more, today. In addition to direct award opportunities, we offer mini competition and custom sourcing projects to support providers, utilising our team of category experts to guide, implement and deliver projects that not only deliver processes compliantly with robust contract terms but press for best value, factor in innovation, and give you access to the ongoing support that helps to navigate the various pressures that can arise. Start a conversation today on T: 0845 887 5000 or E: customercare@htepg.com. We look forward to supporting your organisation

Finding a procurement framework can be challenging, complex and time-consuming. At Pagabo, our client focussed service makes finding a procurement framework quicker, simpler, and more effective. We are an NHS accredited framework host, easy to use and fully compliant.

Efficiency East Midlands Limited (EEM) is proud to be a nationally accredited framework host under new guidance for NHS trusts. The national not-for-profit procurement consortium has a membership base of over 350 public sector organisations, each securing cost and quality efficiencies through collaborative and aggregated procurement. EEM offers a variety of services, focusing on the repair, maintenance, and refurbishment of domestic and commercial properties. Visit our website at www.eem.org.uk

The HCSA promotes the work of procurement and supply chain staff at all levels in healthcare. The Association provides training events and educational seminars, sponsors awards and hosts three high-profile annual conferences. The governance of the Association rests with the board of Trustees. The Executive runs the day to day business of the Association supported by a National Council of Regional Coordinators , Specialist Area Coordinators and National representatives from across the U.K. HCSA is a registered charity in the UK, is entirely self-financed through a combination of income from conferences, seminars, other training events and advertising. Membership is open to all procurement and supply professionals within the healthcare sector in the UK. We do not currently offer membership to providers of products and services to the healthcare industry. We do however, welcome their attendance and involvement at some of our annual events. The Health Care Supply Association is affiliated with the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS).

The HCSA Women in Procurement & Supply Chain Network (Women’s Network) has been created to celebrate the achievements of women in Procurement and Supply Chain in the NHS/Healthcare. Our primary aim is to address women’s issues in the workplace and work to drive positive change. The network supports diversity, inclusion and gender balance, supporting equal opportunity and participation at all levels and in all aspects.

GS1 UK is one of 118 independent GS1 standards organisations operating worldwide. In healthcare, GS1 standards are used to uniquely identify every person, every product, and every place. This enables products and medical devices to be identified, tracked and traced, through the supply chain to the patient, from the point of manufacture. Data is commonly captured in a barcode which is scanned at the point of care. And because it is standardised, the data is accurate, consistent, and interoperable. It is this accuracy and standardisation of data that improves traceability and patient safety, reduces unwarranted clinical variation, and drives operational efficiencies across industry. To learn more about how GS1 standards work in practice, download the Scan4Safety evidence report at: https://healthcare.gs1uk.org/scan4safety. You can also find out more on our website at: www.gs1uk.org/healthcare. Email us at: healthcare@gs1uk.org Follow us on Twitter at: @gs1uk_hc https://twitter.com/gs1uk_hc

CIPS, the global membership organisation for procurement and supply. With 60,000 members spanning 156 countries and offices across the world, we’re building a global network to power our profession. We lead in education and training. We provide information and tools. And we help build capability within organisations. Through all our work, we are the voice and standard.

Health Contracts International is a full-service, market-leading healthcare business intelligence solution fuelled by artificial intelligence and industry expertise from BiP Solutions. HCI’s unique suite of precision intelligence, technology, and trend data facilitates businesses to find and win more opportunities in both the public and private sector healthcare environments. Start winning more business through access to tailored opportunities, competitor insights and market analysis with our cutting-edge end-to-end business intelligence platform. Grow your revenue. Increase your market share. Get a return on your investment.

At Cadence Marketing, we understand the importance of data in the public sector and have built a comprehensive database of over 200,000 contacts across 31,600 organisations, including Central Government, Local Government, NHS, Education, MOD, and Emergency Services. We love helping businesses connect with public sector buyers through targeted marketing solutions. Whether you’re looking to boost your email campaigns, do some market research, host a webinar, or create some killer content, we’ve got you covered. Reach the right people, stay up-to-date, make informed decisions and improve your win rate.

Tracker is a full-service, market-leading business intelligence solution, delivered by one of Europe’s leading experts in procurement – BiP Solutions. Tracker’s unique suite of precision intelligence, technology, and trend data facilitates businesses to find and win more opportunities in both the public and private sector marketplace. Start winning more business through access to tailored opportunities, competitor insights and market analysis with our cutting-edge end-to-end business intelligence platform. Grow your revenue. Increase your market share. Get a return on your investment.

Delta eSourcing enables efficient, effective and compliant procurement. Utilised by thousands of public sector buyers every day, its Buyer Portal, Tender Manager, Supplier Manager, Contract Manager and eAuctions services can be used independently or else combined to form a comprehensive and effective end-to-end procurement solution. In challenging times, Delta eSourcing delivers transparency, compliance and value for money.