Awarded contract

British Medical Journal (BMJ) Subscription

Details

Buyer: NHS Wales - Shared Services Partnership
Supplier(s): British Medical Journal
Value: 202,377.4
Topic: Recruitment services
Published: 22 November 2024
Source: uk:sell2wales

Tender description

Hywel Dda Health Board ("HDUHB") has awarded a contract for the renewal of their British Medical Journal (BMJ) Subscription. This contract provides the Health Board with access to the BMJ which is a weekly peer reviewed medical trade journal, published by the trade union the British Medical Association (BMA). It is the world’s oldest general medical journal which enables the Health Board to advertise vacancies across all specialities ensuring HDUHB satisfies its statutory obligation to advertise substantive consultant vacancies in a professional journal, as well as other medical/hard to fill vacancies across all specialities. HDUHB advertise all substantive consultant vacancies in the BMJ via either digital or print format. This is a statutory obligation.

Timeline

Completed: Award date29 October 2024
Completed: Award published22 November 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

79600000 · Recruitment services
79611000 · Job search services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov