Marlow Based Health Care Procurement Experts Advise Transparency Is the Only Way for New CCG's to Run the NHS.
Clinical Commissioning Groups have now taken control of vast areas of the U.K's NHS budget creating one of the largest changes in the organisations history.
Online, April 29, 2013 (Newswire.com) - As control of NHS Budgets have been moved from central authorities to (CCG Clinical Commissioning Groups) Marlow based health care procurement experts Udhi Silva & Nick Coleman of Procure Health advise caution is needed.
"This is the single biggest change to the NHS probably since it's inception" Udhi Silva director at Procure Health
"GP surgeries have long had the ability to control budgets for procurement of medical equipment and supplies. Now through CCG's nearly two thirds of the national NHS budget is to be presided over and assigned by local GP led Clinical Commissioning Groups." Udhi Silva
"In order for the system to work transparency is required at every level, any conflict of interest where a GP has ties to external commercial interests which could affect how budgeting decisions are made need to be made public." Udhi Silva
The British Medical Journal published a paper in March 2013 looking at the commercial interests of 176 of the 211 CCG's in the U.K it found 36% of individuals have external interests either through share ownership or directorships which could influence budget decisions.
Colman & Silva founded Marlow based Medical Supermarket in 2011 as part of the larger Procure Health group. The company has experienced massive growth in 2013 creating a multi million pound revenue.
"Our system is simple we have removed barriers to obtaining health care equipment discounts and simplified the order system." Udhi Silva
Traditionally NHS medical equipment procurement budgets have been spent through tightly controlled buying groups which often would have ties to individual manufacturers and suppliers.
The size of the supplier and their overheads would all too often impact the discount available to NHS organisations.
The drive to provide quality and transparency in NHS budgets and Health Care is being taken up by Marlow based Medical Supermarket.
A mix of no nonsense customer care and carefully chosen strategic partnerships has seen record revenue growth of over 100% in 2013 for Marlow based Medical supplies group, Medical Supermarket.
The growth has lead to the creation of 10 new positions in the past 18 months at their Marlow headquarters and a further three positions based in Cardiff.
A tactic of partnering with high profile online medical communities has seen the reach of Medical Supermarket expand dramatically in the first three months of the year.
In real terms not only has traffic to the company website www.medical-supermarket.com grown, but the expanding team at allows the company to offer a much stronger coverage of regional sales staff and vital customer support roles.
"Although we have fantastic elements of online support, there are times when our clients need to talk with a human being to ask questions and resolve issues. Expanding our team this year means our customer support levels have risen dramatically." Nick Coleman M.D Medical Supermarket.
Founded in 2011 by Nick Coleman & Udhi Silva who both have backgrounds in high level Medical supplies procurement for large hospital groups and NHS trusts. Medical Supermarket bucks the conventions of existing medical supplies buying groups by offering a no fee membership.
Innovations such as the single invoice system have won praise from medical buyers representing GP's surgeries, Dentists, Care Home and Primary Care organisations.
Medical Supermarket will continue to expand in 2013 and create new employment opportunities.
