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About the buyer

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS trust serving around 375,000 people across West and North Norfolk, North Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire. A dedicated procurement team handles supplier enquiries by email. Every purchase needs a contract, from a simple purchase order to a signed agreement for larger buys. Suppliers must hold a valid purchase order before delivering goods or services. Standard payment terms run 30 days from the date of invoice.

UK health spending has nearly quadrupled to £241.8bn in 2024/25, £20bn up on the year before. £140.6bn of that went to procurement, the biggest sector of UK public spending and the fastest-growing.

Over the past 5 years, most of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust's contract awards have been in health and social work, repair and maintenance and IT services.