NHS Supply Chain: Food (provided by Foodbuy) have recently retained the contract to provide food services into hospitals across England.
The new contract term started on 5 July 2023 and means NHS Supply Chain: Food will be the Category Management Service Provider until March 2027. This marks a new chapter, where NHS Supply Chain: Food can further enhance the great foundations already made, driving savings into trusts through frameworks, as well as providing added value such as exciting events programmes, and various other activities.
NHS Supply Chain: Food is delighted to be able to further evolve the contract as a committed partner, having supplied food to the NHS for the past five years, and will continue to support the procurement and catering teams within hospitals, and to provide the best supplier solutions for trust’s needs, acting as the perfect partner as their supplier of food.
NHS Supply Chain: Food will continue to provide services associated with their supply of food, negotiating the best possible prices for food and delivering commercial savings, as well as offering a compliant route to market. New activity will start now including working with Key Priority trusts to drive significant savings, as well as an increase on Chefs Academy and Food Forum events for trusts, and an enhanced innovative approach towards the work done with trusts to enable NHS Supply Chain: Food to work even more closely with them.
Kirstin Morris, Business Director said “We are proud of what we have delivered and achieved during our first five-year term and feel that the contract was awarded based on our passion for healthy, nutritious, and sustainable food in the NHS, along with our ambition to build on the strong base we have developed so far to ensure patients, visitors, and staff remain at the heart of all our decisions. We are looking forward to working even more collaboratively with NHS Supply Chain on a common model for excellence in category management, delivering greater value for the NHS by providing specialist category knowledge, skills and expertise, expertise in category management, a renewed focus and energy on supplier performance improvements, support for strategic objectives including resilience, sustainability and innovation, as well as a culture of collaboration to support the development of best practice. We are looking forward to building on our existing relationships with colleagues, trusts and suppliers and continuing to bring insight, innovation and great value to the NHS moving forward.”
The new NHS Supply Chain: Food contract went live from 5 July 2023. For further information please visit here.
Date: 20 July