State of the web: February 2012
Welcome to the monthly roundup of the best articles our industry has to offer. Here's what has caught our eye over the last month.
Merchant’s
musings
The future of NHS procurement...
...and its connections to QIPP
We are all familiar with the current NHS challenge: 20-25 per cent of efficiency savings (approximately £20bn) in four years. But hang on a minute, that started a year ago, so if that level of saving wasn’t achieved in year one (which it wasn’t), doesn’t that mean there’s an even greater percentage saving to be achieved in what is now less than three years?
In short, yes. Which is why, now more than ever, it is vital for NHS suppliers to understand NHS procurement from the inside out. This is where we come in – to try and simplify some of the changes and help providers market themselves into the NHS.
Now is the right time to engage with the NHS.
The controversial Health and Social Care Bill is currently in the House of Lords where a long list of amendments is being voted upon as we write. But putting politics to one side, is now the time for you to hunt down valuable NHS contracts or would it be best to focus efforts elsewhere?
State of the web: January 2012
Hello, and welcome to the first edition of a monthly roundup of the best articles on the internet. Our aim is to give insight into the trials and tribulations of designing for the modern web.