NHS Wasting Money

[Martin Blank]

Read this http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/hospitals-wasting-%c2%a356-million-a-year-on-expensive-rubber-gloves-nhs-leaders-reveal
Its amazing that the National Health Service doesn't operate a system similar to the MOD when it comes to procuring spares, bog roll, consumables etc... Central order and distribution point from the best lowest bidder fit for purpose provider...allegedly

 

[Stevienics]

It's a £130 Billion cost centre run by people who don't like confrontation and who like to hug.

It's practically criminal not to defraud and abuse it, it's so ripe for the picking.

 

[ninjarabbi]

I have this bridge in London for sale; think they’d be interested?

 

[Barch]

Centralised systems do not always work !!

Did you ever see the TV programme with James Martin at Scarborough hospital?

More info >> HERE <<

He went in to look at the catering costs per patient per day and if the food could be improved within the budget. All food / ingredients were from a central source.

He looked at all sorts of things one of which was the soup they provided. The hospital were using 'packet soup' and he looked at local suppliers and found that they could make soup using fresh ingredients for a similar price of the packet soup and at the same labour cost.

The biggest eye opener was fish, the fish was landed at Whitby (20 miles from Scarborough) and then transported to South Wales to the NHS 'fish hub' before being transported back to Scarborough for the hospital to use. A fish merchant in Whitby said he could provide and deliver the very same fish for half the price that the NHS 'fish hub' sold it to the hospitals.

To cut a long story short he could provide the patients with better food sourced from local suppliers than the NHS 'food hub' could provide.

Alarmingly, the Trust in charge of Scarborough General Hospital is considering closing the hospital’s kitchen, putting all of James’ efforts to improve patient meals there at risk. Improvements to hospital food are only ever likely to be limited and temporary unless Government makes it mandatory for all hospitals to adopt the catering standards, which James and his team have introduced in a number of hospitals, including at Scarborough General Hospital."

 

[busby1971]

But the cost of knowing something is cheaper locally might be more than the saving made.

Put up a parts, bits and bobs list, with spec details, all to competitive tender and let open competition decide the price to be paid with periodic reviews.

Then you just need an audit process to make sure you’re suppliers aren’t ripping you off, in the supermarket supply world the suppliers pay for the auditors to conduct the supermarket standard audits.


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[Stevienics]

All of this is absolutely correct. the issue with the #NHS is that they'd rather no put the effort into enforcing standards and objectives when it comes to the supply chain.

That is "somebody else's business", and in the instance of an overspend as a Public Sector cost centre, it gets a huge "So what" shrug.

No one gets incentivised
No one ever gets fired.

 

[rocket scientist]

Did you ever see the TV programme with James Martin at Scarborough hospital?

I think I saw that - one of the problems was that the menu was too complex as well. Didn't the restaurant that the public/workers used end up making quite a profit which subsidised the patients' meals as well?