Insourcing Pre-op

About the buyer

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust runs acute hospital services in Wolverhampton as an NHS trust with its own commercial team. Procurement sits with the North Midlands and Black Country Procurement Group, a shared commercial service covering trusts and commissioning bodies across the Midlands. Tenders are advertised through Atamis, the NHS's shared eCommercial system. A Commercial Contract Management team based at New Cross handles contracting on the group's behalf. The Trust also hosts the national Pathology Managed Equipment Services Framework for NHS and government bodies.

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 Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust's contract awards have been in health and social work, transport equipment and repair and maintenance.