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Acting HCSA Chief Officer Simon Walsh discusses the summer conference, pays homage to Alan Hoskins and looks forward to returning to face-to-face networking at the HCSA November conference

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The NHS in Greater Manchester Procurement Team & AdviseInc were shortlisted as finalists for the Local Covid-19 Response Partnership Award at the HSJ Partnership Awards 🥳HSJ Partnership Awards - INACTIVE ACCOUNT

MFT Finance & Procurement Family we thank Neil Hind and Celia and Gareth GM Procurement Neil Hind for all their great work over the past years - your legacy is a great future for GM Provider Procurement within @GM_HSC
Best wishes in your new roles

Pleased to be attending the Health Anchors Learning Network launch event today.

Suspect lots more focus on the role of the #NHS as an anchor organisation over the next few years.

#Collaboration
#Learning
#Health

An excellent session today with (CLES) Centre for Local Economic Strategies chaired by Tom Lloyd Goodwin on the role of Anchor Institution for the #NHS .

A massive role for procurement and commissioning in the space with some good initial progress being made.

#SocialValue

jobs.nhs.uk/xi/vacancy/916… I'm looking for a Head of Procurement to join my brilliant team here at Newcastle Hospitals.

If you're interested please contact me for an informal, confidential chat. #hiring #procurement

StockWatch recognised by GM Procurement in their iNetwork Award Winning submission. Live in less than 4 days at the start of the pandemic to keep Manchester safe. It was a privilege to support our friends and colleagues in the region.
i-network.org.uk/greater-manche… Mayor of Greater Manchester @Tech4CV19

Congratulations to GM Procurement Neil Hind on winning the Connected Procurement & Commissioning Award at the iNetwork awards! 🏆 #iNetworkAwards

And in the Connected Procurement & Commissioning (CPC) Award category....Congratulations @GM_HSC! #iNetworkAwards

#inetworkawards - Congratulations to GreaterManchester NHS on winning the Connected Procurement & Commissioning Award 🥇🎉👏🥳

The winner of the Connected Procurement & Commissioning Award at the Innovation Awards 2020 is Greater Manchester NHS for their project, COVID-19 – The catalyst for doing things differently. CONGRATULATIONS! Neil Hind.View their project at: i-network.org.uk/greater-manche… #iNetworkAwards

All settled and ready for the #iNetworkAwards GM Procurement

We're pleased to be at this evenings #inetworkawards with iNetwork.

Shortlisted for Connected Procurement & Covid-19 Response awards!

#NHS #Collaboration

Fancy joining the MFT Finance & Procurement Family team?

2 x 8A Senior Purchasing Manager posts closing 17th March. Salary £45,753+

Full details at: jobs.nhs.uk/xi/vacancy/916…

#NHS #Procurement #Manchester

Always good to see the positive results from #procurement input in action.

'A temporary endoscopy unit is part of a joint effort to help NHS Trusts catch up. So far, it has cut the backlog for endoscopies from 22 weeks to 13.'

1m50s for a tour!

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HCSA NWSkillsDevelopmentNetwork 💙 really good NW Proc Forum today.
Moving updates from East Cheshire NHS Mid Cheshire Hospitals 🏥 colleagues on their Covid response plus the great progress NHS Lancashire Procurement Cluster (LPC)
Thanks to Jacky and Sharon
Very proud and humbled

🗣️ “My heartfelt thanks to everyone for their hard work and dedication in this incredible achievement.”

Last week Andy met staff at the NHS mass vaccination centre at the Etihad Campus to thank them for their part in vaccinating 639,128 people so far across Greater Manchester.

Another very busy & productive GM #NHS Procurement Board today with all trusts participating.

Workplan in good shape & ICS work processing well.

Great to see many partners in attendance too including NHS Supply Chain CrownCommercialServ NHS SBS Greater Manchester Combined Authority.

We'd asked AdviseInc to look at GM Trusts Top 100 single use products which contain plastic.

Covers 3% of PO spend
Approx 750 tonnes
99.5% supplied via NHS Supply Chain
Intravenous & arterial tubing key area

More detail to come but great analysis!

#NHS #plastics

We've just followed NHS Lancashire Procurement Cluster (LPC), the shared collaborative #NHS Procurement & Supply Chain Service for Lancashire!

We've been working more closely with NW Procurement colleagues over the last 12 months bringing benefits for all!