Our Enhanced New North West RDC is Coming Soon at Gorsey Point

The new RDC is part of  NHS Supply Chain’s transformation activity to support improved customer service. The Gorsey Point site has been designed to meet the future needs of NHS Supply Chain’s network and its customers, with the capacity to accommodate a broader range of products, leading to efficiencies elsewhere in the network.

Yes, all customers previously served by Runcorn RDC will transfer in a phased process, with the existing Runcorn site expected to close in the Autumn.

Gorsey Point will be able to hold substantially more products than the current Runcorn site, reducing the need for servicing from other depots and thereby strengthening NHS Supply Chain’s service to customers, and ultimately patients.

Inbound deliveries from suppliers for the stock build prior to the opening of the site will start in April 2023 and continue for a period of time.
For the vast majority of suppliers, this means we will start placing orders from late March. For products with longer lead time, orders will be placed in late January.
These orders will come from our new Oracle system, so will be in the X12345678 format – you need to be comfortable that your systems can process them. We have shared extensive information about this change over the last 18 months, and invited all suppliers to take a short online survey to assess and confirm their ability to work with the new PO format. Thank you to all our suppliers who completed this survey, and especially to those who then worked with us to test and ensure their system readiness. If this raises any concerns, please let us know at ChangeOrderNumbers@supplychain.nhs.uk

We need to know that your systems can process our orders when we send them through.
See our Useful Links section for a link to complete this short survey to confirm you understand the change and can continue to receive and process our orders (and all orders from the new Gorsey Point RDC).

Your usual Inventory Team contact will share forecast data with you in the coming weeks.
Long lead time orders have been placed already, others will begin from mid-February, although the vast majority will be from the end of March.
Temperature control stock cannot be accepted until June – orders will be dated accordingly.
We will are sharing operational information as it is confirmed; we gave the address, GLN and delivery requirement details for the new site on our February Supplier Webinar, and will add them to this page shortly.
Monthly updates will continue to be provided via the monthly Supplier Webinar at noon on the first Wednesday of every month.