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NHS Healthcare Uniform

Type: New Contract Category: Facilities and Office Solutions Reference: 2021/S 000-023385 Supply Route: eDirect
Start Date: 3 June 2024 Expiry Date: 2 June 2029

The framework for NHS Healthcare Uniform starts on 3 June 2024, runs for 60 months and ends on 2 June 2029.

Overview

The NHS Healthcare Uniform provides core garments and cultural workwear items for clinical staff within NHS trusts in England.

This agreement has had extensive input from key stakeholders including the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC), NHS England, professional bodies, and NHS staff across all directorates.

Key Benefits 

Centralised process and reduced timescales

  • Time saved on procurement processes.
  • Simplified supply lines, continuous availability, reduced individual garment costs, delivery costs and timescales.
  • Utilising national volume to drive more competitive pricing, reduce variation and improve the quality of garments made.
  • A single catalogue based on established, approved framework suppliers providing uniforms to an agreed, tested and endorsed design specifically for healthcare roles.
  • Collation of accurate management information enabling usage mapping to understand local and national purchasing patterns.

Designed for the NHS, by the NHS

  • Designed with input and feedback from the NHS workforce.
  • Volunteer trust partners have tested the garments in situ, providing feedback into the design process to create a bespoke, ensuring the garments are fit for purpose, with a specification designed for NHS healthcare professionals.

Inclusive range

  • Inclusive range suitable for all wearers with considerations of cultural requirements, and needs of menopausal wearers, allowing individuals to pick the uniform that matches their identity to ensure they feel valued and listened to.
  • Ensuring all of the NHS workforce can wear a consistent and matching range of garments that reflect their identity.
  • Scope includes all healthcare roles (excluding medical professionals). See our Useful Links section for a full list of professional groupings within scope, on the NHS Healthcare Uniform website.

Environmental Considerations

  • Standards set for garment’s environmental impact and supply resilience. National guidance input with waste specialists to review end of life processing of current uniforms.

This is a brand new framework offering a bespoke NHS Healthcare Uniform, however, an alternative uniform provision is available through the Textiles and Associated Products framework.