Awarded contract

HEIW Provision of Research Skills within Pharmacy

Details

Topic
Education and training services
Published
10 July 2024

Tender description

Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) is a special health authority within NHS Wales who have a leading role in the education, training, development, and shaping of the healthcare workforce in Wales, whilst supporting high-quality care of the people of Wales.HEIW pharmacy team would like to continue to support the entire pharmacy team to development research skills, as this is an area that has been highlighted as an urgent area for development, in a recent research project.Are UK pharmacists ready for consultant-level practice? A cross-sectional survey of self-assessed development needs | International Journal of Pharmacy Practice | Oxford Academic (oup.com)The Pharmacy Research Wales group has developed a plan to increase research skills across the pharmacy team and selected this pharmacy specific module, as the first step in the research journey for registered pharmacy professionals.HEIW Pharmacy have previously funded this Cardiff University Pharmacy School stand-alone module on Research Methods, which has been created specifically for pharmacy professionals and includes mentoring by pharmacy academics to create a research project plan, which is then used by the pharmacy profession to conduct the research later.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date11 January 2024
  2. Completed: Award published10 July 2024
    Current notice

About the buyer

NHS Wales - Shared Services Partnership is hosted by Velindre NHS Trust and buys as a healthcare body for every health board and trust in Wales through its Procurement Services division. Tenders are advertised on Sell2Wales and run through the eTenderWales portal. Frameworks cover capital equipment, pharmaceuticals, clinical supplies, food, utilities, maintenance, IT and the commissioning of healthcare services. Local procurement teams work with each health board alongside sourcing, supply chain and accounts payable teams. Where appropriate, tenders are split into smaller lots so SMEs can bid.

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 NHS Wales - Shared Services Partnership's contract awards have been in health and social work, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals and repair and maintenance.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 80000000 · Education and training services

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