NHS Trust Non-Pharmaceutical Product Supply Chain Arrangements

Reginald Space made this Freedom of Information request to North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust Automatic anti-spam measures are in place for this older request. Please let us know if a further response is expected or if you are having trouble responding.

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Dear North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust,

Following a recent Health Service Journal Article on ICS-level warehousing and logistics facilities, I would be grateful if you could confirm whether your Trust is a partner of an ICS-level, combined warehousing and logistics capability (Yes/No).

Please confirm the annual value and volume of non-pharmaceutical healthcare products delivered to the Trust, broken down by supply route:
• NHS Supply Chain delivered
• Via an ICS/ICB-wide Warehouse facility (if any)
• Direct from Suppliers (ordered through NHS Supply Chain: eDirect)
• Direct from Suppliers (ordered via an NHS Supply Chain contract or Framework)
• Direct from Suppliers (ordered via other Contract / framework)

Please confirm:
• Square Footage of the Trust’s goods receiving facility and stores facility (if separate)
• Number of staff (FTEs) operating in the goods receiving facility and stores facility
• Details of the frequency of deliveries to the Trust, including overall operating hours of the goods receiving and storage function
• Does the Trust have the ability to receive goods “out of hours” (Yes/No)?

Yours faithfully,

Reginald Space

FOI Enquiries, North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust

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Karen Parry2, North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust

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Dear Reginald

 

Please see below the response to your FOI request.

 

Following a recent Health Service Journal Article on ICS-level warehousing
and logistics facilities, I would be grateful if you could confirm whether
your Trust is a partner of an ICS-level, combined warehousing and
logistics capability (Yes/No).

Please confirm the annual value and volume of non-pharmaceutical
healthcare products delivered to the Trust, broken down by supply route:

• NHS Supply Chain delivered

£2394107, 437652 products

• Via an ICS/ICB-wide Warehouse facility (if any)

N/A

• Direct from Suppliers (ordered through NHS Supply Chain: eDirect)

N/A

• Direct from Suppliers (ordered via an NHS Supply Chain contract or
Framework)

£3783763, 456 products

• Direct from Suppliers (ordered via other Contract / framework)

N/A

 

Please confirm:

• Square Footage of the Trust’s goods receiving facility and stores
facility (if separate)

Receiving/stores facility is 92 square meters.

• Number of staff (FTEs) operating in the goods receiving facility and
stores facility

Zero staff (FTE) operating in the store’s facility.

• Details of the frequency of deliveries to the Trust, including overall
operating hours of the goods receiving and storage function

NHSSC deliveries are every Thursday (if requests are submitted).

Operating hours are 07:30Hrs – 16:30Hrs Mon – Fri,  no weekend work.

• Does the Trust have the ability to receive goods “out of hours”
(Yes/No)?

No.

 

I trust this answers your questions.

 

Kind regards

 

Karen

 

Karen Parry

Communications Officer

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Dear Karen,

Many thanks for your response, this satisfies my information request.

Yours sincerely,

Reginald Space

Karen Parry2, North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Hi

 

I am out of the office, returning Tuesday 30 May. Please email
[email address] in my absence if it is urgent.

 

Many thanks

 

Karen

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