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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.

Collaboration between the four NHS procurement hubs has resulted in the successful delivery of the first NHS Total Orthopaedic Solutions framework agreement, and will enable NHS trusts to better leverage their spend in this market.

Steve Dunkerley, a senior LPP project manager, has taken the mantle from Steve Ellesmere to manage the final Demand Aggregation Pilot category projects through to completion.

Preeya Bailie has joined LPP as Workstream Lead for the Agency and Temporary Staffing team.

Trusts met on Friday 5th December for the launch of the Total Cardiology Solutions framework agreement, being developed by the NHS Collaborative Procurement Partnership.