A new NHS database has been launched that will give suppliers greater access to the procurement process and dramatically reduce NHS costs.
Sid4health has replaced NHS-sid as the electronic record that holds supplier pre-qualification information. This new and improved service is shared among all purchasing organisations in the NHS and is free of charge to all suppliers and NHS users.
The web-based database has been introduced by the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency as part of the NHS Procurement eEnablement Programme, to significantly reduce processing costs and facilitate procurement processes, by allowing the management and transfer of supplier profile data to NHS eProcurement systems.
All NHS-sid registered users will need to re-register on sid4health – any existing NHS-sid profiles will be transferred to sid4health but companies are urged to update their record to fulfil new data fields.
For more information please visit www.pasa.nhs.uk/sid