Image: S. O'Neill
Procurement used to be an honourable craft. It used to be about NHS organisations getting the very best they could out of private companies making the essential supplies the NHS needs: value for money. The best way of buying stuff so the NHS could spend our money wisely.
Not any more. Now, according to the advertising blurb for the P4H exhibition, billed as ‘UK’s Premier Healthcare Procurement Event of the Year’, procurement is about suppliers tapping into the ‘lucrative NHS market’. It was about how private companies could get their share of the NHS kitty. This was held at the ICC, Birmingham, on Thursday 9 July.
