NHS Supply Chain partners with Cheshire and Merseyside ICS for Value Delivery Partnership Programme

NHS Supply Chain is pleased to launch its Value Delivery Partnership Programme with Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System (ICS).

The partnership will see NHS Supply Chain support Cheshire and Merseyside ICS to be more efficient, enabling them to invest more into local health services.

NHS Supply Chain will work with Cheshire and Merseyside ICS on a wide range of projects to bring broader system benefits such as influencing a reduction in total costs within a patient pathway, reducing bed days, and considering service offerings and developments from our Out of Hospital Care and Care Pathway Teams.

The programme will support the Clinical Pathways Programme (CPP) which is managed by Cheshire and Merseyside Acute and Specialist Trust Provider Collaborative (CMAST).

As part of this programme, NHS Supply Chain will help address unwarranted variation and inequality in access, experience and outcomes in key specialities across the population of Cheshire and Merseyside. 

The partnership will drive sustainable increased value and improve patient outcomes by:

• Broadening product selection consideration
• Establishing system-based product evaluation governance
• Establishing system financial approvals processes
• Establishing system-based approaches for category management
• Challenging the status quo of product/supplier selection
• Providing products that are fit for purpose and evidence-based to promote best clinical practice whilst reducing the care pathway cost where possible

NHS Supply Chain will work in partnership with Cheshire and Merseyside ICS’s Joint Forward Plan and establish an accelerated workplan activity.

Collaborative procurement is at the heart of our partnership with Cheshire and Merseyside ICS. Through effective collaboration and collective responsibility, we will demonstrate the value that excellent procurement can deliver.

Jodi Chapman, Customer Executive Director

The ICS has worked in partnership with NHS Supply Chain for several years to drive efficiencies and savings and has built a solid foundation in which to build on. This ICS Value Delivery Partnership will set a standard for embracing clinical leadership using evidence-based metrics to drive decision-making and highlight what can be achieved at scale, and I believe the ongoing and dynamic partnership will continue to deliver high levels of value and efficiency for not only the Cheshire and Merseyside system but the wider NHS.

Sue Colbeck, Chief Procurement Officer at NHS Cheshire and Merseyside

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About NHS Supply Chain

NHS Supply Chain is part of the NHS family and manage the sourcing, delivery and supply of healthcare products, services and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales.

We manage more than 8 million orders per year across more than 129,000 order points and over 17,000 locations. We deliver over 35 million lines of picked goods to the NHS annually and our systems consolidate orders from over 1100 suppliers. This enables us to bring value to our NHS partners, helping them save time and money in removing duplication of overlapping contracts.

NHS Supply Chain aims to leverage the collective buying power of the NHS to drive savings and provide a standardised range of clinically assured, quality products at the best value.

NHS Supply Chain is committed to enabling the NHS to deliver safe and excellent patient care.

Supply Chain Coordination Ltd (SCCL) is the company at the heart of NHS Supply Chain. It provides oversight and operational management for NHS Supply Chain and its service providers. 

SCCL is the legal entity through which NHS Supply Chain undertakes its procurement services and transacts with customers and suppliers.

Whilst its shares are owned by NHS England, SCCL is a separate organisation.