Featured Panel: Cardiac Diagnostics
We need you to sign up for our Cardiac Diagnostics Equipment Technologies panel, especially if you are a cardiology or A&E nurse, or if you work in ambulance or community services.
This programme is designed to enable proactive engagement with NHS trusts, in order to help us:
- Design and develop the right procurement strategies.
- Achieve enhanced benefit for the wider NHS.
Facilitated by our Voice of the Customer team, we are looking for customers from across a range of roles and disciplines to join one of our panels.
The aim of the panels is to gather key customer knowledge and insight to help shape our future procurement activity.
The overall aim of this programme is to ensure the customer voice is embedded into the implementation and delivery of our category strategies.
This will ensure that we will supply products that are suitable for use, provide value for money, and meet the needs of the NHS.
Featured Panel: Anaesthesia
We need you to sign up for our latest panels, including the panel to discuss the framework renewal for Anaesthesia Machines, Ventilators, Neonatal Equipment, and Phototherapy Devices.
Sign Up to Join One of Our Panels
If you would like to join one of our category strategy customer advisory panels please use our registration form.
For any other future category strategies that are not specified here, or for general queries about the programme, please contact us.
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Category Strategy Customer Advisory Panels
Category: Diagnostic Equipment and Services
Framework names:
- Angiography
- Bone Densitometers
- Contrast Injectors and Consumables
- CT Scanners
- Digital Mammography
- Fluoroscopy
- Lithotripsy
- Mobile Image Intensifiers
- MRI Scanners
- X-Ray Mobile
- X-Ray Static
Topics for discussion will include:
- Appetites for Refurbished Equipment
- Specification Format Preferences
- Stroke CT Integration in Ambulances: perspectives and barriers to adoption
- Breast Screening via MRI: feedback on recent guidance proposing a change in breast screening protocols toward MRI use
- Community-Based Imaging Procedures: insights into deploying mobile imaging within community settings or ambulances: constraints on implementation.
Roles required:
- Clinical Procurement Specialist
- Clinical Lead
- Ambulance Services
- Community Diagnostic Centres
- Imaging Networks
- Finance
First panel: Friday 26 September 2025 (2 – 2:45pm)
Second panel: TBC
Framework start date: March 2028
Category: Diagnostic Equipment and Services
Framework name:
- Anaesthesia Machines
- Ventilators
- Neonatal Equipment
- Phototherapy Devices, Related Accessories and Services
Product areas Covered: The framework provides comprehensive coverage across above mentioned modalities; however, for this particular VoC panel, our focus is solely on customer insights pertaining to anaesthesia machines and anaesthesia waste gas capture devices.
Topics for discussion will include:
- The implementation of the Green Theatre Checklist and initiatives supporting sustainability practices
- Approaches to gas capture devices, including their specifications; strategies to enhance the efficient delivery of anaesthetic gases
Roles required:
- Anaesthetists
- Operating Department Practitioners (ODPs)
- Electrical and Biomedical Engineering (EBME)
- Procurement
- Sustainability Leads
- Clinical Procurement
First panel: 23 September 2025 (2 – 2:45pm)
Second panel: TBC
Framework start date: March 2028
Category: Diagnostic Equipment and Services
(Current) Framework name: Decontamination Capital Equipment
Product areas covered: Endoscopy Decontamination Unit, Central Decontamination Unit, Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment.
Topics for discussion will include:
- Horizon Scanning for Future Clinical Needs and Technologies – exploring emerging trends such as AI, robotics, enhanced imaging, and data-driven diagnostics
- Lotting structure guidance, innovation scoping.
Roles required:
- Clinical Procurement
- Unit Managers
- Clinical Leads
- Finance
- Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) Specialists
- Surgeons
- Urologists
- Infection Prevention and Control (IPC)
- Procurement
- Sustainability Leads
First panel: Monday 13 October 2025 (2 – 2:45pm)
Second panel: TBC
Framework start date: March 2028
Category: Diagnostic Equipment and Services
Framework name: 3 Frameworks consisting of ENT Endoscopy, Flexible Endoscopy and Rigid Endoscopy
Categories Covered:
- Fibre Optic Endoscopes
- Intubating Endoscopes
- Video Endoscopes
- Video Processors / 3D Imaging systems
- Bronchoscopes
- Camera stack systems
- Choledochoscopes
- Cystoscopes
- Duodenoscopes
- Endoscopic Ultrasound
- Enteroscopes
- Gastroscopes
- Ureteroscopes / Arthroscopy Scopes
- Camera Systems
- Electronic Devices
- ENT Scopes
- Gynaecology Scopes
- Laparoscopy Scope
- Robotic Assisted Arm
- Urology Scopes
Topics for discussion will include:
- Lotting restructure and guidance, from product led (Flex, ENT, RIG) to a speciality led approach
- Product coverage and grouping for purchasing
- Horizon Scanning for Future Clinical Needs and Technologies
- Explore emerging trends such as AI, robotics, enhanced imaging, and data-driven diagnostics
- Innovation scoping
Roles required:
- Clinical Procurement
- Endoscopy Unit Managers
- Clinical Leads
- Finance
- Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) Specialists
- Surgeons
- Urologists
- Gastroenterologists
- Procurement
First panel: Monday 13 October 2025 (2 – 2:45pm)
Second panel: TBC
Framework start date: March 2028
Category: Diagnostic Equipment and Services
Framework name: Radiotherapy Planning and IT Solutions
Product areas covered:
- Radiotherapy Record and Verify System
- Radiotherapy Simulation Software
- Radiotherapy Treatment Planning System
Framework Name: Radiotherapy Treatment Systems
Product areas covered:
- Brachytherapy HDR After Loader
- Intraoperative Radiation Therapy System
- Linear Accelerators
- MR Guided Radiotherapy Treatment System
- Radiosurgery, Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy Device
- Superficial X-Ray Radiation Therapy Treatment System
Framework name: Radiotherapy QA, Dosimetry and Patient Positioning
Product areas Covered: Dosimetry, Patient Positioning, Quality Assurance.
Focus areas will include: Lotting structure, current coverage, innovation, specification suitability.
Roles required:
- Clinical (Including Radiotherapists)
- Procurement
- Sustainability Leads
- Clinical Procurement Specialist Nurses
- Programme Leads
Survey issued: September 2025
Panel: TBC
Category: Diagnostic Equipment and Services
Framework names: Simulation Devices and Services
Product areas covered: Adult forearm manikins, Airway management trainers, Birthing simulators, Full body simulation manikins, Rescue manikins, Upper adult torsos.
Topics for discussion will include:
- Lotting Structure
- Supplier and product range scope
- Innovation
Roles required:
- Procurement
- Educators
- Lecturers
- Trainers using simulation devices within: midwifery, rescue, IV training, airway management and central venous catheter insertion
First panel: Tuesday 7 October (11 – 11:45am)
Second panel: TBC
Framework start date: March 2028
Category: Diagnostic Equipment and Services
Framework name: Nuclear Medicine
Product areas covered:
- Dedicated Cardiac SPECT System with Solid State Detectors
- PET CT
- PET MRI
- SPECT with Integrated CT
- SPECT Gamma Camera
Focus areas will include:
- Lotting structure
- Current coverage
- Innovation
- Specification suitability
Roles required:
- Procurement
- Clinical specialist across multiple disciplines (including doctors, healthcare science practitioners, nurses, and physicists)
- Clinical procurement specialist nurses
- Radiologists / biomedical engineers
Survey issued: September 2025
Panel: TBC
Framework start date: March 2028
Category: Diagnostic Equipment and Services
Framework name: Robotic Medical Equipment
Product areas covered: Surgical, Spinal and Neurological Robots, Freestanding Robotic Arms
Focus areas will include: Lotting structure, current coverage, innovation, specification suitability.
Roles required:
- Procurement
- Clinical / Specialists across multiple surgical disciplines (Including: Urology / Gynaecology / Colorectal)
- Clinical Procurement Specialist Nurses
Survey Issued: September 2025
Panel: TBC
Framework start date: March 2028
Category: Diagnostic Equipment and Services
Framework name: Cardiac Diagnostics Equipment Technologies and Related Equipment and Services Framework
Project: Framework renewal
Product areas covered:
- ECG Devices: Ambulatory ECG Monitoring, ABPM, Interpretation, Management Systems, TECS
- Management Systems, Cardiac Stress Testing, CPFT, PFT and LFT, Fitness Equipment, Interpretation.
Topics for discussion will include: Clinical input for product specifications and Statement of Requirements, Product coverage, Community requirements
Roles required:
- Procurement
- Cardiology Nurses
- A&E Nurses
- Ambulance Services
- Community Services
First panel: Tuesday 30 September 2025 (2pm – 2.45pm)
Second panel: TBC
Framework start date: March 2028
Category: Facilities and Office Solutions
Framework: Cleaning Supplies
Project: Cloths NCP (Nationally Contracted Product)
Overview:
There is currently no universally defined cloth size across the market. Given the scale of the NHS Supply Chain and the broader external market, we seek to engage NHS Trusts in a collaborative effort to conduct sample testing. This initiative aims to evaluate existing products, identify best-in-class options, deliver savings and increase resilience measures via an NCP Programme.
Roles required:
- Housekeeping
- Nursing Staff (responsible for day to day cleans)
- Ward Managers
- Head of Facilities
- Estate Managers
- Procurement
First panel: October 2025
Second panel: TBC
NCP start date: TBC
To help develop a strategy to procure Chlorine tablets for all trusts through the National Contracted Product (NCP) programme. This is to assure supply and support trusts with reducing the cost of the product.
We need to understand the requirements of customers, what potential implications there may be to standardising as part of an NCP, as well as support in defining a product specification and any testing requirements to ensuring product efficacy.
Roles required:
- Infection Prevention
- Housekeeping
- Ward Managers
- Clinical Procurement Specialists
- Head of Facilities
- Estate Managers
First panel: Thursday 3 April 2025 (2pm – 2.45pm)
Second panel: TBC
Framework start date: TBC
Covering:
- Short to Medium Term Clinical Service Solutions
- Long Term Managed Equipment and Clinical Service Solutions; (providing staffed and/or unstaffed managed equipment and clinical service solutions on or off hospital sites)
- Professional Consultancy for Managed Services
Key Objectives: To understand if there are any improvements required, support that can be provided, opportunities to consider for the framework renewal from a customer perspective.
Roles required:
- Procurement
- Radiology Departments
- Operations Manager
- Services Manager
First panel: Tuesday 11 February 2025 (11am – 11.45am)
Second panel: TBC
Framework start date: February 2026
Additional Information
What benefits will trusts get by partaking in category strategy customer advisory panels?
As well as learning about innovations being added to the new framework, customers will gain:
- Ability to suggest new innovations that may be suitable to be added to the framework, to benefit patient care, care pathways and drive value for the NHS.
- First sight of and input into potential savings levers, to factor into a savings work plan.
- Greater engagement with us across our procurement activity, including visibility of key milestones within the procurement process.
How much time will I need to commit?
Requirements on your time and commitment may vary, dependant on the framework type and category area. There will be flexibility in the different types of engagement, and how we collate your feedback:
- Microsoft Teams meetings
- Live polls
- Questionnaires
- Email communications.
The decision was made to open up the engagement into category strategy, moving away from a sole responsible trust (Lead Reference Trust) to ensure we are capturing input from a wider scope of customers to support a strategy aligned to customer needs.
There will be opportunity to review and provide feedback on the current framework prior to us going out to tender for the category area. Updates will be provided post procurement activity, as well as seeking your feedback on the initial outcomes of the tender.
Once procurement activity is concluded, customers will be provided with details of the outcome via contract launch communications (available six weeks prior to the framework / contract start date).
