What is Being Bought in The Healthcare Marketplace in 2023

What is Being Bought in the Healthcare Marketplace in 2023? Healthcare purchasing trends are constantly shifting to integrate the newest technologies, improving the quality of patient care overall by putting the patient first. The healthcare industry is witnessing many emerging trends in purchasing habits in 2023, with some products, services, and technologies driving change in […]

How Can NHS Suppliers Help Buyers Achieve Net Zero Targets?

The National Health Service (NHS) is the largest and most comprehensive healthcare system in the United Kingdom. It is also one of the world’s largest employers, with over 1.2 million staff members. In recent years, the NHS has made a commitment to reduce its carbon emissions by 2020, which will help it reach its net zero […]

6 Benefits of Telehealth Services

The U.K. telehealth market is expected to reach more than 1.2 million people by 2027, which means many health systems see the benefits of telehealth. Since the Covid-19 pandemic began, telehealth services have expanded worldwide, reaching people remotely with quality healthcare. Telehealth has many benefits, including increasing patient flexibility, improving follow-ups, and decreasing overall costs. When you […]

Examining the Future of NHS Staffing

There’s no industry whose fate was as tightly interwoven with the COVID-19 pandemic as the healthcare sector. For years, healthcare workers put their lives on the line. They struggled through long working days and worrying conditions to protect the population. This necessary preoccupation with the Coronavirus stunted innovation in the sector. Yet, it prompted essential […]

The Future of PPE in the NHS

Between February 2020 and March 2022, the UK government distributed 19.8 billion items of personal protective equipment, or PPE. These were primarily for use by health and social care services in England, including the NHS. This was a huge increase on the 2.43 billion items of PPE equipment delivered by the government in 2019. The pandemic caused a massive boom in the use of PPE, […]

Is Cyber Security One of the Biggest Threats to the Stability of Healthcare?

Did you know that hackers hit a whopping 81% of all healthcare organisations in the UK in 2021? The bad news doesn’t stop there. As our world slowly moves many of its operations into the digital sphere, the attack vectors are increasing tenfold. Data breaches increased by 68% in 2021, and the trend is only on the […]

What NHS privatisation could mean for the future of healthcare contractors?

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Will innovation be put on hold as the healthcare sector recuperates pandemic losses?

There’s no denying that healthcare leaders of tomorrow will use the events of the COVID-19 pandemic as a marker for future innovation. The pandemic was, in many respects, an incredible feat of rapid response, with doctors, medical professionals, scientists and more uniting to beat a new deadly virus – but the events of the last […]

Can wearable technology help the healthcare sector prepare for the unexpected?

Thanks to advances in smart phone technology coinciding with gym closures caused by lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic, smart watches and alternative wearable health devices transitioned from something of a “novelty toy” to an important aspect of everyday life. Depending on the device, model, and manufacturer, these devices have the capability to measure blood pressure, […]

How to tender in the healthcare supply market

The Healthcare Sector, particularly in the UK, is awash with some of the most lucrative contract opportunities available. Did you know that the NHS, which accounts for 80 per cent of total healthcare spend, is associated with £27 billion worth of annual spend? The beauty of fulfilling public sector contracts, especially if we consider hospital […]