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NHS London Procurement Partnership is working with its members to pilot an internal NHS Collaborative Locum Bank and demonstrate that the NHS can manage the movement of substantive NHS employees who also work as medical locums.

Capsticks held a seminar on the new Public Contracts Regulations for LPP members on 27th April 2015.

A new Building and Engineering Maintenance Services framework, open to all NHS organisations, has gone live.

Lord Carter, Peter Smith and Dr Rodney Foale were among the speakers at LPP's 2015 conference, attended by more than 70 members on 2nd March.

LPP has created an area on its website to disseminate any guidance material and templates released by the Department of Health, to support trusts in their adoption and planning of GS1 and PEPPOL standards.

The national procurement strategy has received a major boost as the four NHS procurement hubs have agreed to work to common Principles, and where practical have opened a number of frameworks to their combined membership, cutting duplication and giving trusts immediate access to a wider range of OJEU compliant frameworks.

Lord Carter and Peter Smith, Spend Matters editor and industry commentator, are among the speakers at the LPP member conference on 2nd March 2015.

Following on the heels of the successful mobile telephony auction run in August 2014 and achieving savings of more than 60% comes a second auction dedicated to the NHS.