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NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) is a joint venture company in the United Kingdom between the Department of Health (DoH) [1] NHS Business Services Authority (NHS BSA) and the French IT services company Sopra Steria. [2] It provides back office services such as accounting, procurement, payroll and managed IT to NHS organisations.
NHSBSA administers the NHS Pension Scheme in England and Wales, offering services for members, employers and surviving spouses, partners or dependants. Scanning services digitise medical records from across the NHS. NHSBSA also took on NHS Jobs, the official online recruitment service for the NHS in England and Wales on 1 April 2018.
The design of a new supply chain service was planned to help the NHS deliver clinically assured, quality products at the best value through a range of specialist buying functions, and leverage the buying power of the NHS to negotiate the best deals from suppliers, with the aim to deliver savings of £2.4 billion over five years. [citation needed]
The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is a system for the performance management and payment of general practitioners (GPs) in the National Health Service (NHS) in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The programme was established in October 2002 following several Department of Health reports on IT Strategies for the NHS, and on 1 April 2005 a new agency called NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) was formed to deliver the programme. [13] CfH absorbed both staff and workstreams from the abolished NHS Information Authority, the organisation it ...
As part of a new Special Health Authority the NHS SMS has begun to introduce the first ever national strategy for security in the NHS, which involves measures to protect staff in England against violence and abuse, prevent theft and damage to equipment and property, ensure the security of drugs and medicines and protect maternity and paediatric ...
From March 2019, with the effective merger of NHS Improvement and NHS England, there was no longer any real purchaser/provider split at a national level. [ 15 ] The move away from Payment by Results , which started in 2019, further undermines the principles of the internal market, as it is intended to reduce incentives for increases in hospital ...
The NHS Long Term Plan, also known as the NHS 10-Year Plan is a document published by NHS England on 7 January 2019, which sets out its priorities for healthcare over the next 10 years and shows how the NHS funding settlement will be used. It was published by NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens and Prime Minister Theresa May. [1]