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Who To Contact and When

To help our customers to access the help and support they require quickly and easily, this page gives you an overview of the key customer teams and how and when to contact them.

PPE Customer Services

Who?
Our Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Customer Services team supports over 60,000 PPE Portal users and those NHS customers who are supplied PPE via the auto replenishment Foundry model.

When?
The PPE Customer Services function is the first point of contact for all PPE complaints, issues, and queries, for both acute and non-acute customers.

We provide:

  • A helpdesk for push deliveries (Foundry) and the PPE Portal.
  • Support on delivery and discrepancy queries.
  • A service for complaints management.
  • Supply and availability advice.
  • Product issue and quality assurance guidance.
  • Help in onboarding new portal users or helping existing users.
  • Daily demand management, for example, raising orders via Clipper.
  • They are also responsible for location changes or amendments and communications with Clipper.

Contact number: 0800 876 6802 (open from 8am to 5pm, Monday to Friday)

Please note: PPE Customer Services do not have a contact email address, so queries must be raised via the contact telephone number. On request, they can send you a log of your query so that you have this as evidence of your call.

If you have raised a query via PPE Customer Services and still require additional support, please contact one of the following teams:

NHS Supply Chain Customer Services

Who?
Our dedicated NHS Supply Chain Customer Services team, serving the customer base of each Regional Distribution Centre (RDC) throughout the country.

When?
For operational issues not related to PPE including:

  • Order placement and systems advice
  • Order delivery
  • Discrepancy or error reporting and arranging returns
  • Delivery location and requisition point maintenance advice.

This team can also assist with:

  • Product availability, supply and availability advice
  • Provision of unsatisfied lines report or guidance on how to self-serve
  • Next day and emergency deliveries
  • Escalation of urgent requirement for demand managed products.

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Customer IT Helpdesk

Who?
A dedicated team to help specifically with technical problems to do with the NHS Supply Chain website, Online Catalogue or other operational systems.

When?
If you see an error on a screen, please contact us by email with a screenshot and include the page address (URL). We also help with:

  • Checking or changing account details (username and password)
  • Forgotten or lost password
  • Problems when ordering products online
  • Support for the eDC PDA devices (Android/Motorola)
  • EDI (3rd party) order queries and integrations.

You may also be able to find the help you need in one of our system user guides and ‘how to’ documents.

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NHS Supply Chain Customer Relationship Managers

Who?
Our CRMs are a partner to local and ICS Procurement and Supply Chain teams to deliver mutual value within the context of NHS priorities and operational planning guidance.

When?
We work with NHS providers to:

  • Build, develop and deliver savings work plans
  • Support clinical or non-clinical change
  • Be a gateway into NHS Supply Chain to access additional support and services
  • Lead, shape and support ICS savings work plan collaborations
  • Represent the voice of the customer
  • Offer training and support on NHS Supply Chain systems infrastructure.

This team can also assist with:
Our CRMs support successful patient care outcomes with savings work plans. They also act as a key escalation support.

Escalation support includes local relationship management and resources, commercial matters including savings opportunities, work plan delivery and timelines, performance reporting and price increases, clinical engagement, Category Tower Service Provider (CTSP) activity, contract launch activity and Voice of the Customer conversations.

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Press and Media Enquiries

Please provide full details of your request and your contact information when you send an enquiry to our media team.

Jennie Gilleeney

Corporate Communications Manager

jennie.gilleeney@supplychain.nhs.uk

07714 043 391

Jo Travis

Corporate Communications Manager

jo.travis@supplychain.nhs.uk

07598 546 070

Dom Tyson

Corporate Communications Coordinator

dominic.tyson@supplychain.nhs.uk

07808 273 298

Joanna Morrison

Head of Public Affairs and PR

joanna.morrison@supplychain.nhs.uk

07776 457 201