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Lancs Lad wrote:
MistAgain wrote:
TRG-22 wrote: Should we focus on inadequate funding of the NHS? How about the reduction in stocks of PPE for health and care workers?
Good question . Most healthcare trusts have 5 options to order anything they require .
The trust can buy directly from suppliers using National Framework Contracts Authorisations.
From the NHS Supply Chain .
From a Procurement Hub (regional multi-trust purchasing)
Local contracts managed by individual trusts
And finally , the government national framework .

If the trust wants to buy anything under £3000.00 they can accept a phone quote , after that it get difficult , all the way up to £90.000.00 , that needs invitations to tender publishing in the official journal of the EU .

Lets just look at surgical gloves . The cheapest , untreated latex has a shelf life of 2-3 years dependant on storage . Its main use is for cleaning staff and examinations by medical staff.

After that latex or nitrile gloves that are subject to some form of treatment can have a much shorter shelf life . Failure rate of natural latex gloves will increase by 9% after roughly 12 minutes of use , so hospital need a wide selection of glove types in their stores at all times .

For PPE stuff , hospital trusts and the NHS Supply chain work on a just in time basis . There would be an outcry from the public and others if it was believed that Trusts and the NHS were spending large sums of money on climate controlled storage for things that under normal circumstances would not be needed for months if not years .

If a trust ran short of PPE thats not any governments fault, covid was not expected or planned for.

Its possible that some blame could be placed on hospital trusts if they only kept a small supply of PPE but looking at a few trust board reports it does appear that they have reasonable levels of supplies in stock . The problems arose when they tried to order in large quantities at a time when they would not have normally been ordering and when hospitals across Europe were panic buying .

Thanks to a certain lady called Thatcher you can check out Hospital Board meetings to see what they said about shortages .
Mistagain

Oh do come along now ... You really must refrain from providing sensible answers to questions otherwise people may become upset. Either behave yourself with immediate effect or it's the naughty step for you my lad ;)

:flag13: LL
Oh Dear , I hope no one is upset . I was going to explain the complexities involved in ordering new product and the multi level process that has to be followed .
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