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Collaborative procurement: five minutes with . . . Des Breen

BMJ 2018; 361 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k1772 (Published 25 April 2018) Cite this as: BMJ 2018;361:k1772
  1. Abi Rimmer
  1. London, UK

The NHS medical director discusses how closer collaboration between seven hospitals helped them save millions on products they use everyday

“This work all started in the south Yorkshire, mid Yorkshire, and north Derbyshire vanguard programme, which was promoting new models of care. A few years ago, the hospitals in the region got together to discuss what they could do collaboratively, and the procurement programme was one of those things.

“Traditionally, savings have been ‘procurement led,’ but with this programme we were looking at …

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