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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.
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]
Any Qualified Provider (AQP) is a contractual system within the NHS internal market of the English National Health Service. The system was introduced under the Labour administration in 2009/10 under the name "Any Willing Provider" and was accelerated under the coalition Government which formed in 2010. In 2011 the name of the system was changed ...
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.
In June 2014, NHS England approved a local alternative to the framework for practices in Somerset. Under the Somerset Practice Quality Scheme agreement practices that choose to take part only have to formally report against five of the indicators in the 2014–15 QOF.
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 ...
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 ...
This list of NHS trusts in England provides details of current and former English NHS trusts, NHS foundation trusts, acute hospital trusts, ambulance trusts, mental health trusts, and the unique Isle of Wight NHS Trust. As of April 2020, 217 extant trusts employed about 800,000 of the NHS's 1.2 million staff. [1]