Respiratory care is becoming an increasing concern for health and social care providers across the UK, particularly as conditions like asthma and COPD drive higher hospital admissions during colder months. Timely access to care, proactive management, and coordinated community services are more critical than ever to ensure vulnerable clients remain…

When the Care Quality Commission (CQC) downgraded Sirona Care and Health from “Good” to “Requires Improvement,” it sent a ripple across the UK health and social care sector. Sirona serves almost a million people across Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire so when an organisation of that size receives a…

Winning a health and social care contract feels like crossing the finish line. The months of tender preparation, proposal writing and evaluation periods are finally over but here’s what nobody tells you during the tendering process. Drawing on years of witnessing these mobilisation challenges firsthand, we’ve developed comprehensive post-award delivery…

The healthcare sector along with social care in the UK depends on procurement for providing high-quality service delivery alongside regulatory compliance. The process of securing contracts requires understanding the fundamental distinctions between compliant and non-compliant bidding to organizations that want contracts along with effective project delivery through applicable frameworks. The…

Social value is a broader concept than that of the immediate economic benefit of a contract to an organisation. In the context of healthcare and social care services tendering, social value means the additional benefits to the community that can be brought, for example, through improved well-being, tackling economic inequality,…

In the UK, tenders are crucial for companies seeking to offer services in the social and healthcare sectors. The specifications in the tender provide a set of guidelines for those wanting to participate in the bidding process by outlining what is expected from them by the employer. Companies must comprehend…

The government entering into contracts with private, voluntary and independent organisations for the provision of a variety of health and social care services is now a central method of ensuring that the public receives superior quality service. There are multiple advantages linked to this type of contracting which span across…

Securing contracts through bids in the competitive landscape of health and social care in the UK is an art. Among many competitors, it requires negotiation of complicated requirements, regulations, and hopes for healthcare organisations to differentiate themselves. A significant part of this process is giving substantive evidence and proof to…

Tendering is the process of purchasing goods and services that are usually done by the government. In Britain, tendering is extremely useful in both health care departments and social service provision to support efficiency, cost-effectiveness and quality performance of service delivery. The objective of this article is to provide a…