NHS Partners Network (NHSPN) chair Mike Parish is quoted in today’s edition of the Financial Times on the Cooperation and Competition Panel’s decision not to continue with the case examining NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney’s preferred provider tendering of community services.
The panel made the decision following an announcement by the Department of Health that procurement for community services in the east of England was to be suspended. Mike Parish said the network and the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO) would still press the case if the ‘preferred provider’ practice would lead to other uncontested contracts, which would “run contrary to the principles of procurement law.”
The full article can be accessed at on the Financial Times website.
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