PROFESSIONAL SUPPLIES
T
he debate between the Health Care Supply Association
(HCSA) and NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) over money wasted on supplies has taken another turn.
The HCSA wrote to NHS SBS managing director John Neilson about an interview Neilson gave to The Times which the HCSA felt made misleading claims about the industry, as reported in the last edition of NHE.
Neilson wrote back to the HCSA: “Firstly let me assure you that my comments should not be con- strued as criticism of the benefits achieved through procurement as a function, but rather recognition that the overarching commer- cial processes within a trust are sometimes disjointed or deficient and consequently mitigate against trusts being able to maximise the available potential savings. In particular, the article covered a number of areas around the com- mercial processes within trusts, for example the rationalisation of
products, spend analytics, finan- cial governance and compliance.
“I also must point out that The Times unfortunately transposed some of the numbers relating to one of the examples they used to illustrate the article, making the data in this case seem worse.
“I am happy to share this data with your council members at a meet- ing, subject to of course the usual restrictions of commercial confi- dentiality.”
HCSA executive director John Eff- ingham welcomed the opportunity to meet with Neilson. He said it was “encouraging” that Neilson had offered to share the data and added: “The council is looking forward to meeting Mr Neilson and we will provide an update to association members, respecting any confidentiality agreement we enter into about trust specific data, as soon as possible.”
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