Spending rise spells more pressure
3 April 2012
Procurement professionals in the National Health Service will have to cope with increased demands from clinicians as they get to grips with bigger purchasing budgets.
Gordon Brown, chancellor of the exchequer, promised to raise NHS spending from just over £65 billion this year to more than £105 billion by 2007-08, a rise of 43 per cent in real terms and the biggest increase in public spending for nearly 30 years.
David Forsyth, chief executive of West Sussex Shared Services Consortium, a public-sector organisation that serves...