This is highlighted by the MPs report into the NHS’s central purchasing body. The very fact that it has been left to “mark its own homework” as a result of weak oversight, according to the Public Accounts Committee will make patients feel uneasy. Especially when many patients are facing delays for operations or lining the corridors of A&E to be seen following an emergency.
NHS Supply Chain has “failed to persuade trusts to use it, meaning trusts are missing out on opportunities for savings”, the PAC says. For all the good that the NHS does, it is an organisation that suffers from a never ending labyrinth of red tape and bureaucracy. At a time when the NHS is facing budgetary pressures like no other, a review is needed into how efficient parts of the health service are.
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