UK医院采购时用的决策模型

张琨 · 发表于 2005-11-28 20:05:01

Using frameworks to improve purchasing efficienciesAs the 2007/8 deadline for public sector bodies to reach efficiency targets looms the NHS needs to seek savings wherever possible. The use of frameworks to purchase ICT equipment and services is one of the most effective ways of doing this. David Astley, national sector sales manager for health and emergency services at Telewest Business explains what’s out there… The Efficiency Review, conducted by Sir Peter Gershon and published in July 2004, indicated scope for significant savings through improved public procurement. By adopting a more co-ordinated approach to purchasing commodity goods and services, it is expected that better value for money will be achieved. To achieve the strategic aims of NHS Connecting for Health, the agency charged with modernising NHS IT, organisations need to ensure that their communications infrastructures will be able to withstand new applications. Historically the health sector has built up its networks with a piecemeal approach, linking together a diverse range of technologies to achieve connectivity. Connecting for Health has put pressure on primary care organisations and the emergency services to modernise their communications. Building out networks is a complex challenge. The procurement cycle can become a large drain on resources if assistance is not sought to ensure that accountability can be more effectively proven and suppliers can meet the numerous government regulations that health sector communications need to comply with. Frameworks, where organisations can purchase services and equipment from approved suppliers, saving time and money are really helping to deliver these efficiencies. The two main ones are the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) and NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (PASA). The OGC framework...The Office of Government Commerce framework (OGC) has been in place for longer than the PASA framework. It works with public sector organisations to help them improve their efficiency, gain better value for money from their commercial activities and deliver improved success from programmes and projects. To help demonstrate best value, the OGC buying solutions appoints suppliers under the Broadband Solutions Framework Agreement. This means that you can purchase a standard package or a bespoke broadband solution quickly and efficiently, without negotiating terms for each purchase. You can rest assured in the knowledge that you have achieved best value and that you will enjoy sound contractual protection (through Government Terms and Conditions). The efficiency agenda is also driving the health sector to make use of its combined influence as a buyer and achieve economies of scale through joining consortia under such frameworks and benefiting from aggregated services. and the PASA framework...

ASA is the newer framework, and is an executive agency of the Department of Health, established on 1 April 2000. PASA’s role is to act as a centre of expertise, knowledge and excellence in purchasing and supply matters for the health service. As an integral part of the Department of Health, PASA is in a key position to advise on policy and the strategic direction of procurement, and its impact on developing healthcare, across the NHS.

ASA is an active participant in the ongoing modernisation of purchasing and supply in the health service, and contracts on a national basis for products and services which are strategically critical to the NHS. It also acts in cases where aggregated purchasing power will yield greater economic savings than those achieved by contracting on a local or regional basis. This is especially important for Managed Data Network purchases within the health sector so they comply with government regulations such as the revised Freedom of Information Act and the Data Protection Act which came into force in 2005. The importance of future-proofing Working within a framework can ensure that your infrastructure is, as far as possible, future proofed. Long procurement cycles mean that any network needs to be capable of meeting traffic requirements five years hence. Purchasing frameworks can ensure that the onus for making sure that your network infrastructure doesn’t become obsolete and the responsibility for replacement doesn’t fall on you. In selecting a future-proof communications infrastructure, you will need to ensure that you have the potential to explore the advantages that convergence will bring to the health sector. Advantages like being able to run voice, data and multi-media traffic over a single network, a strategic aim of Connecting for Health, will be beneficial. Converged networks’ ability to support multimedia applications is becoming increasingly important to patient diagnosis. For example, introducing new visual applications that will make x-rays and clinical data available from anywhere, via a centralised database or specialised treatment units. Telewest Business is one of the main telecommunications operators in the UK and has been a member of the OGC for three years now. It has proved a truly effective way for us to sell our services, and most importantly for NHS organisations to save time and money when purchasing ICT services. Mersey Regional Ambulance Services and Camden and Islington Shared Services Agency are two of the organisations that have benefited from working with the OGC. In August 2005, Telewest Business also became one of the approved PASA suppliers, in the area of IT & telecoms. It is our intention to establish and build a foundation on which to deliver best value solutions through the framework agreement to the NHS. With the pressure to meet Gershon targets, surely it makes sense for a majority of the NHS to use PASA and the OGC to their own and mutual benefit? It is easier for the supplier, it means public money is not being wasted and most importantly, enables NHS organisations to choose who they want to supply a particular service, saving time and money in the process.

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