BUSINESS REPORT


HELPING LOCAL BUSINESSES SAVE MONEY


During his 20-year career in corporate procurement, Gurvinder Patara estimates that he saved over £100m for businesses in many spend categories and sectors. Striking out on his own, and as one of the newest Chamber members, he’s keen to share his expertise for the benefit of fellow businesses in the network.


Having successfully launched businesses to deliver purchasing services to the hospitality and leisure sector in 2018, and now working with over 300 businesses in the UK, Purchasing for Business was launched this year as the official procurement partner of the FSPA and is keen to support local Northamptonshire businesses to reduce costs and increase profits. The business specialises in reviewing and reducing


business costs on a wide range of business products and services using its buying power and expertise for businesses in any sector and size. Reviewing and reducing costs is personal to Gurvinder.


‘REVIEWING AND REDUCING COSTS IS PERSONAL TO GURVINDER’


Starting his career in marketing before moving into procurement, he was struck by the seemingly constant restructures taking place, that ultimately led to job losses rather than any meaningful change to corporate spend. Refusing to accept that redundancies are inevitable, Gurvinder made it his mission to make his own department as efficient and streamlined as possible; for every saving he made, he counted the success in the numbers of staff that kept their positions. In the current climate cost-control and management has become acutely


important, as more businesses review their operations, spend and cash- flow. With over 20 years’ experience, the team at Purchasing for Business are uniquely placed to leverage: • Great cost savings • Saving business time with a one-stop shop purchasing service • Exclusive discounts with retails partners that would usually require high spend


• Preferred pricing and discounts with their suppliers • Access to strong and growing group buying power • Tailored purchasing solutions.


To find out more about Purchasing for Business and their services and benefits please visit: www.purchasingforbusiness.co.uk or email the team at info@purchasingforbusiness.co.uk


KGH'S RESPIRATORY SERVICE WINS AWARD


Kettering General Hospital’s Respiratory Service has won one of the Royal College of Physicians’ (RCP) Excellence in Patient Care Awards. The service has won the college’s


Innovation Award for their ambulatory management of spontaneous pneumothorax work – a service which helps to reduce the need for patients with lung conditions to spend time in hospital. The RCP award recognises


projects that have used innovative new techniques or ideas that have contributed to significant improvements in patient care or health outcomes. The ambulatory pneumothorax


service enables patients who would traditionally have been admitted to hospital for up to two weeks, to instead be seen and


discharged on the same day – with regular follow-up checks at a special clinic as an outpatient. KGH Consultant, Dr Raja Reddy


said: “We are delighted. This is recognition of six years of work our team has made in developing the pneumothorax services at Kettering General Hospital for the benefit of our patients. “It recognises the way we have


committed to improving the service at every opportunity.” The Respiratory Service


established the Ambulatory Pneumothorax Service in 2013 and it has been further developed since then. Traditionally hospitals treat this condition - which is an air leak from the lung, causing lung collapse and breathlessness - by admitting the patient to hospital. Dr Reddy said: “But we


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The service is run by Consultants in Respiratory Medicine, Dr Raja Reddy, Dr George Tsaknis, Dr Muhammad Naeem, and Pleural Nurse Specialists Samantha Rawson and Lesley Holland


developed the service as a way for patients with this condition to have treatment that wouldn't involve overnight stays in hospital.”


The team gets a £1,000, a


commemorative plaque and promotion of their winning project by the RCP.


Gurvinder Patara


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