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Guide for overseas investors on how to access NHS procurement channels.

The National Health Service (NHS) celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2018. It maintains its position as the top health system in the world amongst the 11 countries ranked in the Commonwealth Fund report which gave the NHS top marks for patient safety, efficiency, and affordability.

There are opportunities to work with the UK to:

  • propose new ideas, models, and partnerships to address important health challenges

    • The NHS operates through different models in the UK under NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, NHS Northern Ireland and NHS England.

  • accounts for around 80% of all healthcare spending in the UK
  • is free to use for people who have lived in the UK for at least 6 months
  • is the fifth largest employer in the world with 1.5 million employees in 2017
  • deals with over 1 million patients every 36 hours
  • is supported by UK health expenditure which was 9.75% of GDP in 2016

    • The NHS spends about £27 billion every year on goods and services.

    The Department of Health and Social Care’s (DHSC) strategy is to build a modern, effective and efficient procurement capability that is among the best in the world.

  • deliver the highest quality patient care
  • over 200 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs)
  • 54 mental health trusts (including 42 foundation trusts)
  • 10 ambulance trusts (including 5 foundation trusts)
  • 853 for-profit and not-for-profit independent sector organisations, providing care to NHS patients from 7,331 locations
  • 15 Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) and 6 Academic Health Science Centres supporting research, innovation and adoption

    • NHS Procurement Transformation Programme

    The Procurement Transformation Programme (2017 to 2018) is transforming the NHS supply chain in a phased programme that will be fully operational by October 2018.

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