Just what the doctor ordered
13 September 2012
The NHS’s new e-procurement system was implemented in double-quick time, and the results are already visible. Joy Persaud reports
Imagine the challenge: you’ve agreed to install one of the world’s biggest IT systems to cater for products worth £3.5 billion a year – and you’ve only got four months to do it. That was the prospect that faced software company Reqio, the supplier of a new e-ordering system for the NHS, when it won a £1.3 million contract to work with the NHS Purchasing and Supply...