Internal Audit and Counterfraud Service

About the buyer

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust is an NHS trust running three acute hospitals and community services across seven further sites. Every tender is advertised on Atamis, the NHS's shared eCommercial system. Larger contracts are also advertised on Find a Tender. NHS Supply Chain has worked with the Trust on catering procurement. Major equipment needs are covered through long-term managed-service contracts. The Trust recruits its own procurement staff through its careers site.

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 University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust's contract awards have been in medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, repair and maintenance and software and information systems.