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NHS Logistics

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The Department recognises how important it is to consult with the people who use the national health service supply chain; the trusts. They have been and continue to be consulted about the market testing.Two different consultation groups have been established, membership of which is drawn from the acute trusts as it is they who primarily use the services provided by NHS Logistics.A customer reference group was set up in November 2004. This group consisted of procurement leads from the trusts listed in the response.The customer reference group allows the commercial directorate to give updates on the process, and allows procurement leads to ask questions. The nature of the debate is by necessity very general. However, members were solicited for their views on the current service and these findings have helped to inform the market testing process.It was decided that a smaller group had to be established which could be party to more commercially sensitive information. This group, the supply chain and procurement panel (SCPP), first met in April 2005. Membership was drawn from major supply confederations and the new collaborative procurement hubs. All of these organisations are also part of the customer reference group.Both groups continue to meet, but the level of engagement is much deeper with the SCPP.Consultation with the SCPP is commercial in confidence. As such, feedback cannot be published. However, we are able to publish any minutes from consultation meetings with the customer reference group. This includes a summary of views expressed during the one-on-one interviews about the current supply chain services.Please note that primary care trusts (PCTs) are represented through the collaborative procurement hubs to which they belong and who also take part in the consultation process.A list of the trusts involved in the consultation is shown as follows."Greater Manchester Collaborative Procurement Hub1""Shropshire and Staffordshire Collaborative Procurement Hub2""Healthcare Purchasing Consortium Collaborative Procurement Hub3""South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust""Central Manchester and Manchester Children's Universities Hospitals NHS Trust""East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust""Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust""The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust""Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust""Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust""Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust""Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Health Care NHS Trust""Sheffield Care Trust""University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust""University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust""Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust""Queen's Medical Centre Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust""Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust""Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust""Poole Hospitals NHS Trust""Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust""Southend Hospital NHS Trust""East Midlands NHS Procurement Project""King's College Hospital NHS Trust""Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust""Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust""Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals NHS Trust""Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust""¹²³ Refer to following tables for member trusts of these procurement hubs."Greater Manchester Collaborative Procurement Hub member trusts"Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT""Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust""Bolton PCT""Bury PCT""Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospitals NHS Trust""Central Manchester PCT""Christie Hospital NHS Trust""Greater Manchester Ambulance Service NHS Trust""Heywood and Middleton PCT""Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust""North Manchester PCT""Oldham PCT""Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust""Pennine Care NHS Trust""Rochdale PCT""Salford PCT""Salford Royal Hospitals NHS Trust""South Manchester PCT""South Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust""Stockport NHS Foundation Trust""Stockport PCT""Tameside and Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust""Tameside and Glossop PCT""Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust""Trafford North PCT""Trafford South PCT""Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust""Greater Manchester Strategic Health Authority"Shropshire and Staffordshire Collaborative Procurement Hub member trusts"Burntwood, Lichfield and Tamworth PCT""Burton Hospitals NHS Trust""Cannock Chase PCT""East Staffordshire PCT""Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust""Newcastle-under-Lyme PCT""North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust""North Stoke PCT""Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust""Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (The)""Shropshire County PCT""South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Trust""South Stoke PCT""South Western Staffordshire PCT""Staffordshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust""Staffordshire Moorlands PCT""Telford and Wrekin PCT""University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust""Shropshire and Staffordshire Strategic Health Authority"Healthcare Purchasing Consortium Collaborative Procurement Hub member trusts"Coventry and Warwickshire Ambulance NHS Trust""Coventry teaching PCT""George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust""Hereford and Worcester Ambulance Service NHS Trust""Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust""Herefordshire PCT""North Warwickshire NHS Trust""North Warwickshire PCT""Redditch and Bromsgrove PCT""Rugby PCT""South Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust""South Warwickshire PCT""South Worcestershire PCT""University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust""Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust""Worcestershire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust""Wyre Forest PCT"

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Written question

Reference

436 c2723-6W;436 c2751-3W; 11170

Session

2005-06

Subjects

NHS Logistics Authority