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NHS TDA, DH AND LPP PILOT AIMS FOR SIGNIF NHS SAVINGS FROM COMMITMENT PURCHASIN
Twenty seven trusts are taking part in a year-long pilot to prove that going to market as a single entity will deliver huge savings to the NHS.
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ed by the NHS Trust Development Authority and the DH, the pilot has project support provided by procurement collaborative NHS London Procurement Partnership and is directed by a steering board comprising representatives of the DH, NHS England, TDA, LPP and trusts. Its primary objective is to design and develop a practical operating model, including potential organisational structures, for more effective collaborative procurement across multiple trusts. It will be underpinned by collective commitment to buy, and will deliver cost reductions and drive efficiencies by the use of aggregated expenditure, product standardisation and rationalisation of vendors. in June 2013 the Department of Health released an updated set of national standards for procurement reinforcing the need for high levels of joined up, professional procurement across the NHS including greater sharing of supplier data. As LPP chair and Chief Financial Officer of Chelsea & Westminster NHS FT Lorraine Bewes comments, “NHS provider organisations should be securing the same terms and conditions from suppliers and using the same products for the same application as though they were a single national entity. Yet time and time again, we find the same products
being bought at different prices and different products being used for the same application.” The DH and NHS England publication ‘Better Procurement,
better Value, better care’ (published august 2013) requires nHs procurement to release a further £1.5bn in savings by the end of 2015-16, and a 10 per cent real terms cut in administration budgets. Lorraine comments that “Improving co-ordination across the NHS is essential to delivering these. LPP has had co-ordination and collaboration at its core since our beginning in 2006. Now we are looking to drive a step change in how this is manifested.” Project manager Steve Ellesmere explains that “The aim of the pilot is simple: to prove that going to market as a single entity, with commitment to spend, leads to significantly improved procurement results. We are targeting a significant saving on prices paid. “We will use demand aggregation based on common data to influence the commitment of trusts for the creation of shared contracts, with a single price per item. This cannot, however, be a case of simply leveraging buying power, but must also seek to reduce duplication and variation. We want to work with suppliers to help to reduce supply chain costs.”
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UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL TOPS OUT FIRST ULCCO SCHEME The University of Liverpool celebrated a significant landmark in its campus development this week, with the topping out of its £62 million Crown Place student accommodation building. Crown Place, on Brownlow Hill, is the first student accommodation scheme in the UK to be delivered by a university’s own in-house construction company. ULCCO is the construction company established by the University of Liverpool specifically for the construction of Crown Place. Senior Contracts
manager, ulcco special Projects, David Harding, and the University’s Deputy Vice-chancellor, Patrick Hackett, were joined by, the University’s Interim Director of Capital Projects, Richard morris; Director of ulcco Special Projects, Andrew
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Carter; and ULCOO Special Project’s Construction manager steve Jerams. The team performed an ancient topping out ceremony believed to have been first celebrated in Persia five thousand years ago and involved the sprinkling of wine, oil, corn and salt onto a concrete block, symbolizing wisdom, liberty, prosperity and hospitality. A yew branch was then placed on the wet concrete to ward off evil spirits. The concrete block will be incorporated into the completed building. Explains Steve Jerams
“There has been a boom in university accommodation schemes over the past few years with many private developers and construction companies profiting from university expansion. Bringing the whole construction process in house with an experienced team of construction professionals is enabling the university to maximise
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quality, value and delivery while enhancing its estate to further improve the student experience and capitalise on the academic and corporate events market.”
Construction of Crown Place began in November 2012, the breeam excellent scheme will provide 1,230 en-suite study bedrooms in a mix of studios and clusters plus a further 29 larger studio apartments for occupation by live-in pastoral Residential Advisors. Due for completion in August 2014 in time for the 2014/2015 academic year, the development is being constructed as three main buildings, each rising up to 10 storeys, creating a new landmark development on the eastern approach to the University. richard morris adds: “Crown Place is not just a significant new landmark for Liverpool and the University but it also marks a sea change in the process of creating new
buildings in the University sector. By establishing ULCCO Special Projects, The University of Liverpool has created the means to ensure complete transparency and cost accountability throughout the delivery chain and today is a celebration of both structural completion of the building and our achievement in making an alternative approach to campus development so successful.”
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