PCT Procurement Guide for Health Services
28/10/2008
The Department of Health has published the PCT Procurement Guide for Health Services
The guide, published in May 2008, is designed to support NHS commissioners in deciding whether and how to procure health services through formal tendering and market-testing exercises. This guide is designed to be read in conjunction with the ‘Principles and Rules for Cooperation and Competition’, published as Annex D of the 2008/9 Operating Framework, and the ‘Framework for Managing Choice, Cooperation and Competition’. For more information go to http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_084778