The NHS Shared Business Services has secured a single supplier framework for the NHS in England and Wales.

The five-year £4.6 million framework agreement has been awarded by the Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust and is aimed at saving NHS organisations time and money through efficiency savings.

The Trust estimates that the transfer of these three non-frontline services to NHS SBS will achieve savings of around £880,000 throughout the life of the contract.

John Neilson, Chief Executive of NHS SBS said: “Securing this agreement is a great achievement for NHS SBS. Importantly though, it offers a significant additional benefit to NHS providers both at the stage that they’re procuring shared services, and then through the sizeable efficiency savings we can achieve following the integration of our three core services.”

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