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NHS London Procurement Partnership Message from the Chair Lorraine Bewes, Chief Financial Officer, Chelsea & Westminster NHS FT LPP Member Event 25 th March 2014. The year in review: the top line guidance. From the steering board: Save £300m from 2013-16 Invest in Medical & Surgical
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NHS London Procurement Partnership Message from the Chair Lorraine Bewes, Chief Financial Officer, Chelsea & Westminster NHS FT LPP Member Event 25th March 2014
The year in review: the top line guidance • From the steering board: • Save £300m from 2013-16 • Invest in Medical & Surgical • Get our clinicians involved in procurement • From Sir David Nicholson: • Continue to be the benchmark for • NHS collaborative procurement • Stop suppliers running rings around • the NHS • And, while you’re at it, continue to keep our fees down...
The year in review: the key outcomes • 2013/14 on target to achieve more than £90m savings • Medical & Surgical team now at full strength • Clinicians engaging – most recently in the new Trauma framework achieving savings of up to 35.5% • LPP is testing demand aggregation with the DH & TDA... • and collaborating with the regional NHS hubs to bring us additional opportunities • and rolled out the benchmarking & analytics service • For a fee which (for full members) has continued to fall...
The steering board welcomed new members: • Henry Black, Director of Finance, Tower Hamlets CCG • Mark Brice, North West London Portfolio Director,NHSTrust Development Authority • Alan Farnsworth, Director, UCL Partners Procurement Service • Pia Larsen, Interim Director of Procurement & Supply Chain, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust • Bill Shields, Acting CEO, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
The steering board • And welcomed two non-executive directors: • Keith Mahoney, NED at BHR HariSundaresan, • & former Head of Logistics Chief Procurement Officer, • (Food) at Marks & Spencer BT
Our widening membership • We welcomed additional trusts to the LPP fold: • Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust • Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust • Medway NHS Foundation Trust • Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust • Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust • Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust • And from April: Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
What our member survey said • In comparison with all other providers, LPP leads the way for: • Engaging trusts in workplanning • Customer service • Membership/access fee • Availability of ABI • Regular provision of information
What LPP does well: • provides access to compliant frameworks • provides available, helpful, professional staff with the flexibility to help me through a process • supports my trust to meet its savings and CIP targets • involves me in workplanning and keeps me informed • understands my organisation, team and markets • provides VFM • treats me as a valued member • And what it can improve: • Baselining and reporting of savings • Getting savings to the top of the ‘achievements’ list in the view of members • Increase direct contact between category workstreams and peers in trusts • Website and my.lpp being redeveloped to provide a single repository for information and other resources (no more separate log-ins...) • A burning platform needs more than compliant frameworks...
Where 2014/15 will take us • Target: £100m savings • Review of strategy in Autumn once: • Demand Aggregation Pilot findings • DH national procurement strategy published • DH eProcurement strategy published • Agreeing baselining and reporting methodology; even bigger member involvement • Next member survey: October 2014 - moving LPP supports my trust to meet its savings and CIP targets higher up the list
The 2014/15 workplan process • Member involvement in the 2014/15 workplanning process promoted at every level: • category boards, acute stakeholder meetings, community and MHT stakeholder meetings • Trust meetings, LPP team out and about • e-alerts, website, LinkedIn, Twitter... • the steering board • If the 2014/15 workplan doesn’t reflect your needs, then get involved in the 2015/16 process, starting now
2014/15 – sign up, and take advantage • Fees for all full members have continued to drop • Opportunities to save and to engage have increased • We have invested in additional services for all members • “I prefer to use LPP because it is more customer focussed. Trusts need to ensure they take a share of engagement rather than just leave it to LPP to communicate” Member survey Oct 13 • This is our organisation – with full engagement, the prize is huge.