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1. Before AdviseInc  

Before founding AdviseInc, our team worked exclusively in and around the NHS in procurement. We created the first STP-wide spend analytics tool and quickly realised the power of data and insight. We also wrote and launched a number of collaborative procurement hub business cases…

David Lawson, Chief Procurement Officer, Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, and Neil Hind, Sustainable Procurement Lead, NHS England North West Region, explain how transforming NHS procurement can help the NHS to achieve its net zero target by 2045.

Over the past five years or so, attitudes…

Q&A with David Lawson, Chief Procurement Officer, Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.

Could you start by giving me a bit of background on you and your role?

My Name is David Lawson, and I'm the Chief Procurement Officer for Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust…

Our High-Cost Tariff-Excluded Device analysis continues to save our PD+ customers hundreds of thousands of pounds in missed products.

By comparing actual purchases, our cleansed list of products, alongside inventory management with NHS England's FRP workbooks, allow us to see products purchased and receipted items that do not…

It might not be spring time just yet, but as the evenings begin to draw out, the start of a new calendar year certainly presents an opportunity for a spot of spring cleaning. 

Our catalogue checking solutions are now operational in two NHS Integrated Care Systems, with a…

Rob Webb, Director of Procurement, Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Partnership (BSW Partnership), outlines some of the challenges faced by regional procurement leads, and the importance ensuring procurement is firmly on the agenda.

As I and many of my colleagues know, the move towards an…

Q&A with Kayla Rossington, Clinical Category Officer, NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership

Could you start by giving me some background on you and your role at NHS Wales Shared Services?

My name is Kayla Rossington, and I work for NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership as a Clinical Category…

If you are reading this article, it is more than likely that you understand the value of data. But what are you actually doing with it?  

We can look back as far as the 19th century to find an example of data-driven insight, when John Snow presented data…

The Consumer Price Index – what is it, and is there one for healthcare?

Origins

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure that shows the weighted average of prices for a basket of consumer goods and services. It’s calculated monthly by the Office for National Statistics and…

Our team is really looking forward to attending the HSCA Conference at the Harrogate Convention Centre next week, on the 24th and 25th November. With a stash of our famous orange notepads and new eco-friendly pens (made from sugar cane!) at the ready, we will be pitched at…

Q&A with Paul Barry, Collaborative Procurement Programme Manager, for South Yorkshire Integrated Care System

Could you start by telling me a bit about you and your role?

I am the Collaborative Procurement Programme Manager for South Yorkshire Integrated Care System (ICS). I recently left a role as the…

In our October 2021 update on healthcare and spend analytics, we’re shining a light on High-Cost Tariff Excluded Devices (HCTED), and some of the common pitfalls for busy NHS procurement teams.  

Since the beginning of this financial year, trust procurement teams have been responsible for validating the volume…

Speaking with a number of our customers, we know how big a task the transition to an integrated model of care is going to be. For regional procurement leads, one of the most pressing anxieties is the lack of visibility and control you may or may not now…

The way we visualise data in Procurement Dashboard and Price Benchmarking applications is changing.

In the future you’ll have access to all the great insights, but we’re also exploring chat, helping you collaborate with your colleagues, and our team at AdviseInc. 

“Measuring what matters is important, but so…

ICS or Integrated Care Systems are the future of healthcare collaboration. Why?

Individually NHS trusts are too small to achieve the economies of scales/ lots of duplication, Nationally the NHS is too big, slow to make change and deliver.  Are ICS's the right size?  42 Regions working together…

Mat Oram, CEO & Co-founder, AdviseInc “We’re delighted to be have won the Health Tech Leaders Award for ‘Outstanding Supplier Contribution’ in recognition of our PPE tracking and forecasting system, StockWatch.”

“The tool was created by our team in response to an NHS trust who needed to understand…

For the 2nd year running, we made the FT's Leading Management Consultancies specialising in Healthcare. 

It's a great acknowledgment of the team's dedication to supporting Healthcare teams through deep spend analytics.  Made more special by the fact it's voted for by customers and peers - we have no…

Just over four weeks ago the world changed for all of us. Not only did our personal lives change significantly, but our business also changed too. No longer were hospitals as interested in Price Benchmarking or Spend Analytics, so we made a bold move.  We offered our whole…

AdviseInc partners with Jackie Pomroy Consultancy and R2 Consulting to bring together the best in Supply Chain Transformation, Scan4Safety and Analytics capability.

The world has changed from when we first drafted this announcement. Now more than ever, healthcare needs an effective supply chain and our partnership is the…

NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP) Procurement Services has partnered with AdviseInc to implement advanced Spend Analytics across NHS Wales.

The partnership builds upon the delivery of over a million pounds a year in savings using AdviseInc’s Price Benchmarking tool (PB).  AdviseInc’s Spend Analytics tool (PD) will ensure…

While the concept of wound care might be easy to understand, the…

AdviseInc is a great team, a great group of individuals and they’ve got a good product. We’d expect, with anything new, that the tool does whatever it does today. A tool that makes things better for everyone, says Alan Hoskins.

I’ve been working with the NHS for over…

It was at a conference where I first saw AdviseInc and their Price benchmarking tool. £1m later in savings, their tools are embedded in all we do.

I developed a real interest in medical and clinical procurement when I took up a buying role nearly 20 years ago,…

David Lawson heads up one of a new breed of procurement and supply chain organisations, SmartTogether. Large enough to commit volume to the market and secure great value, but small enough to deliver change locally. Read to find out why David works with AdviseInc.

There’s always interesting things…

The latest version of AdviseInc’s Price Benchmarking solution launches across UK Healthcare providers

• £12.5bn now benchmarked across 45,000 suppliers, 1.7m products and 245 hospital providers
• 300,000 more product benchmarks derived from product descriptions a 100% increase in benchmarked spend some non-acute customers where catalogues are not as prevalent…

Great to hear the team won a 'highly commended' in the Best Service category at the #GoAwards2019 last night.  The team are busily working on improved Customer Support, Education and Customer Success as we scale our business to do more with Buyers and Suppliers in the UK as…

Simon Walsh,, the Group Procurement Director - Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust recently took some time out to share his thoughts with one of the team at AdviseInc. Read to find out what makes us different...

I’ve always had a very rewarding and supportive career. But the responsibility…