Our previous clients include:

NHS - Primary Care Trusts (PCT)

Issue

As a 'sister service' to the newly out-sourced Commissioning Enablement Service, the 9 PCT within NHS South Central SHA also required the creation of a Procurement Transaction Service to enact the commissioning decisions made.

This was to be provided by the three separate collaborative procurement organisations, within NHS South Central, working together. However the PCT were disillusioned with the progress that had been made and the approach being undertaken.

Solution

I led the building, and initial line management, of the new NHS South Central Procurement Transaction Service (PTS) from a combination of resources from the existing collaborative procurement organisations within South Central SHA and specialist external resource. Specific tasks included:

• Developing and finalising organisation structure, design and operating processes
• Managing the implementation of new processes, systems and ways of working, integrated with the new ways of working across the South Central SHA PCT
• Transfer, and line management, of existing staff to the new organisation
• Budget / P&L responsibility (£1.5m per annum)
• Provision of specialist procurement / commercial advice to support PCT Commissioning activities

Benefits

• Organisation mobilised
• Year 1 budgets and funding agreed (including on-going contracting arrangements)
• Links established with all PCT
• On-going procurement (commissioning) work plan / pipeline established