Ophthalmology Insourcing

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. 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.

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.