Supply chain management and collaboration: cardiology device procurement

"This initiative helps organisations within a large geographical area (in this case the South West) to smooth price differentials while maintaining choice for clinicians and focusing strongly on quality. This case study describes a collaborative approach across 10 interested NHS acute trusts in the region for procuring cardiology products."

Supply chain management and collaboration: cardiology device procurement
Avon,Gloucestershire,Wiltshire, and Somerset Cardiac & Stroke Network
NICE Quality and Productivity case study

November 2015

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Using data and analytics to transform patient care

"Data-driven decision making has improved patient outcomes in Intermountain's cardiovascular medicine, endocrinology, surgery, obstetrics and care processes — while saving millions of dollars in procurement and in its the supply chain." 

How Intermountain Healthcare is using data and analytics to transform patient care
M Fitzgerald
MITSloan Management Review
June 2015

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Towards a framework for enhancing procurement and supply chain management practice in the NHS

"Those doing procurement in Clinical Commissioning Groups and NHS hospitals need to gain a greater understanding of how this activity is done in commercial settings to improve their skills in the NHS. This study reviews research that has been done in this area already, presents an overview of it and uses it to suggest ways that clinicians and managers in the NHS can carry out their procurement role better."

Towards a framework for enhancing procurement and supply chain management practice in the NHS: lessons for managers and clinicians from a synthesis of the theoretical and empirical literature

J Sanderson , C Lonsdale , R Mannion , T Matharu 

Health Service Delivery & Resesearch 2015;3(18)

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