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Tackling NHS elective recovery targets is challenging when faced with a backlog of patient appointments and limited capacity to deliver services.
Waiting lists continue to grow at a rate hospitals find challenging. At 7.6 million, the number of treatments and the 6.4 million people waiting for them remains stubbornly high. The latest NHS figures show 41% have already waited longer than 18 weeks, while 282,664 people in England have been waiting more than a year. Lord Darzi’s independent investigation states that the NHS must rebuild its capacity to get more people off waiting lists and back into work.
Our Health Framework Agreements provide additional capacity to help see more patients, more quickly within your trust, with the option of utilising out of hours care providers. They include artificial intelligence imaging and teleradiology services too, which helps to speed up diagnosis and release resource to focus on patient care.
NHS England’s Delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency services commits the health service to ease the growing pressure on hospitals by scaling up the use of virtual wards.
The NHSE 2024/25 priorities and operational planning guidance states that as part of recovering the NHS’ core services, trusts should be improving access to virtual wards by ensuring utilisation is consistently above 80%, with a focus on frailty, acute respiratory infection, heart failure and CYP.
Current NHSE guidance is also driving the digitisation of virtual wards, with a view to soon have all virtual wards enhanced using technologies, such as for remote home monitoring.
Health Framework Agreements
About Health Framework Agreements
Health Framework Agreements
The Health Procurement Solutions Team provides clinical and procurement expertise aligned to the current and future needs of the NHS.
Our vision is to deliver quality solutions, best value, and savings to our customers. We do this by offering a portfolio of well-established framework agreements and full end-to-end procurement support designed to meet the needs of the NHS.
Our framework agreements are easy to use, offer a compliant route to market, are flexible (direct award and further competition award options available) and are supported by a dedicated team of category experts who can guide you along your procurement journey. Clinical experts, who have a wealth of knowledge and experience in the NHS are also on hand to offer advice and support.
We are always working to improve our offering by routinely engaging with our stakeholders and suppliers. We collaborate strategically at all levels with a focus on quality, best value, social value, and sustainability.
Our award-winning framework agreements cover a wide range of health-related goods and services. Further details can be found by accessing the links below.
Our framework agreements are procured in accordance with The Public Contracts Regulations (PCR) 2015. They remain a complaint route to market until they reach the framework agreement expiry date, and we will continue to support customers as they procure under current regulations or the upcoming Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 as appropriate. If you have any questions, please contact the team.
We’re absolutely thrilled to have scooped the Health Business 2022 ‘Hospital Procurement Award’ in recognition of procurement excellence and cost-effectiveness which our Advanced Wound Care & Lymphoedema Products and Services Framework Agreement delivers. It has introduced new specialist companies to the NHS through the digital wound care and total managed services on offer. They, in turn, bring innovation in digital healthcare and new ways of working. With Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) linking social care and acute care, the framework agreement can aid the delivery of integrated care pathways as solutions offered lend themselves well to consolidating and standardising practice across an ICS.
We’re proud to be a commercial associate of the Independent Health Providers Network (IHPN). IHPN is the membership network for independent healthcare providers and they play the leading role in the sector by bringing all types of independent providers together, supporting them to deliver great care to patients, and enabling them to make a positive contribution to UK healthcare.
Customer Framework Agreement Portal
Our Customer Framework Agreement Portal allows our customers to:
- Browse our range of framework agreements, with instant access to all associated documents.
- Search by keyword to easily find the information you’re looking for.
- Access support from our team of experts, who can advise on further competitions and answer any questions you might have.