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NHS South West Leadership Recognition Awards 2015 - Finalists
2015 Award Finalists
It is with great pride that we can tell you that the Pharmacy Category Management team were named as finalists in the NHS South West Leadership Recognition Awards 2015 in the NHS Outstanding Collaborative Leadership of the Year category.
The PPSA Pharmacy Category Management team was formed in 2002 and is a well established part of the PPSA providing collaborative procurement leadership and expertise to organisations across the South West of England.
NHS Evidence Project
Cardiac Device Procurement Project
A PPSA Project has been used on NHS Evidence as Example of Best Practice. QIPP Evidence provides users with practical case studies that address quality and productivity challenges in health and social care. Case studies are put forward by their initiators, evaluated by NICE and examples chosen that represent best practise are then published. The PPSA put forward their project on Cardiac Device Procurement and was honoured to have it chosen for publication.
Collaborative Procurement for Automated Nucleic Acid Amplified Testing (NAAT): Reducing the Cost of NAAT for Chlamydia
This initiative demonstrates cost savings through collaborative procurement of NAAT for Chlamydia in 8 South West Trusts.
In the past, the process for procuring NAAT within the South West has been fragmented. Multiple suppliers were being used across the region with different prices per test and kit being applied, resulting in excessive expenditure. This presented an opportunity for the PPSA to take a collaborative approach which enabled organisations to focus on quality and on smoothing price differentials between Trusts while maintaining choice.
Go Awards 2012 /13 - Finalist
PACS & RIS Project (Picture Archiving & Communication System and Radiology Information System)
In 2011 NHS Connecting for Health, part of the Department of Health Informatics Directorate, announced that the existing national agreement for the delivery and management of Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) and Radiology Information System (RIS) services would expire in June 2013 with no planned replacement or alternative solution. This decision left the South West region with an enormous challenge in that new service and support agreements needed to be in place in a very short timescale in order to maintain business continuity and limit risk to patient care.
Go Awards 2010 / 11 - Finalist
eProcurement Project
This is the first time that a project of this scale and nature has been undertaken across the NHS in England.
The vision and mobilisation of a single system across 38 differing organisations to implement electronic systems and standardise sourcing documentation as well as the sharing of online spend analysis information, strongly positions the NHS in the South West to co-ordinate improved collaboration and gain greater control of its £7.6bn expenditure.