Last Updated: 7th May 2013

Who Are We?

The Gloucestershire NHS Procurement Shared Service is a department, hosted by the Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, that was set up to provide Procurement services to three organisations - Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, ²gether NHS Foundation Trust and Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust. Commissioning of health services is carried out by the Care Commissioning Group (CCG). 
 
The Procurement Shared Service provides advice and guidance, contract and supply chain services. There are several teams within the service and these are as follows:

Clinical Category team

The team deals with contracting requirements for all medical and surgical products and equipment along with some medical and surgical services.

Non Clinical Category team

The team deals with facilities and estates requirements, as well as all Information Technology. Capital requirements including new and refurbished accommodation is contracted via this team. Goods and services under this team will also cover corporate requirements, such as furniture or auditing services, as well as more specific department based requirements.

Buying team

The Buying team (part of the Supply Chain team) provides the interface between the user departments and the supplying organisations; sourcing ad-hoc items, processing requisitions and expediting purchases.

Materials teams

There are two teams of materials personnel (part of the Supply Chain Team) based at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and Cheltenham General Hospital who manage the incoming deliveries into Receipt & Distribution as well as the replenishment of ward supplies to these two hospitals and Cirencester Hospital.

Delivery Points for NHS Sites

Gloucestershire Hospitals - Delivery Points and Maps

 This link provides maps and delivery point details for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust