Healthcare Contracts and Tenders

Healthcare tenders cover clinical and care services bought by the public sector: outsourced diagnostics and elective treatment, community and public health services, private healthcare cover for staff, adult social care and homecare, and digital health platforms and patient record systems. It sits across NHS trusts and integrated care boards, local councils and other public bodies, rather than any one buyer type.

No. Occupational health is about keeping an employer's own staff fit for work: health surveillance, fitness assessments and pre-employment medicals, and it has its own page.

Healthcare notices most often carry CPV code 85100000 (Health services) and 85000000 (Health and social work services), alongside 85300000 (Social work and related services) for the social care side.

Healthcare is bought by NHS trusts and integrated care boards commissioning clinical services, local councils running public health and adult social care, and other public bodies arranging private healthcare cover for their own staff. Buyers range from a single acute trust running one diagnostics contract to national frameworks covering hundreds of providers.

NHS Shared Business Services runs the insourcing of clinical services framework, which NHS trusts and health boards use to bring in extra clinical capacity for endoscopy, sonography, obstetric ultrasound and cardiology outpatients. Contracts under it are often direct awards, including from Welsh health boards operating under their own provider selection rules.

On the social care side, Hampshire County Council's open home care framework is a council-run route that is used for reablement and short-term personal care, and for extra care housing.

Read commissioning intentions, service reviews, market position statements and Provider Selection Regime notices, which show healthcare work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the commissioners behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.