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Best Practice Best Value award trail kicks off with Wolverhampton PCT
Birmingham based technology services provider, Probrand, has launched a rolling award programme designed to recognise public sector excellence in IT procurement.
As public sector continues to come under pressure to implement more efficient ways of working, procurement is one area where organisations are rarely rewarded for saving time and money as part of better ways of working.
And the first award will be presented at Wolverhampton City Primary Care Trust’s inaugural Information Management & Technology Excellence awards, which are designed to acknowledge individual employees and teams for ‘going that extra mile’ through patient focused innovation, good practice and service improvement.
Probrand’s award has been designed to specifically recognise teams or individuals that have shown they consistently secure Best Value IT purchases.
Best Value is considered to be best price purchases delivered within the shortest possible time and secured through a process that does not cost more than the savings achieved in the purchase price. This means a combination of cashable and non-cashable savings as a result.
Richard Hunter Rice, Sales Manager at Probrand, said: “Anyone who is consistently securing savings or Best Value must be using a structured approach to procurement. This is known as Best Practice and we want to reward people for overcoming the challenges of buying within a highly dynamic IT market where price, stock and specification change on a daily basis.
Probrand is also set to recognise personnel with the following awards: ‘Improving the patient experience’ for services whose use of IT has had a positive impact on the patients’ experience of the NHS and ‘Outstanding Contribution to IT Employee service’ which recognises a team or individual that has made a significant commitment to IT and the way it supports the business practices of the PCT.
The list of attendees at the event include the Chairman and Directors of the PCT and senior project managers responsible for the delivery of Connecting for Health initiatives amongst senior members of numerous public sector organisations. The event is ccelebrating excellence of practice and innovations as part of the 60th anniversary of the NHS.
Jon Crockett, chief executive of the PCT, said: “Staff who work in clinical areas are in an ideal position to suggest developments and improvements to the services they work in on a day-to-day basis. The awards are an opportunity to reward those whose innovative use of information technology has really improved the services we provide to our patients.”
Wolverhampton City Primary Care Trust’s IM&T Excellence awards take place at Molineux football stadium, Wolverhampton on Friday, July 25.
(July 2008)
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