{"id":50463,"date":"2024-08-22T10:37:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T09:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=50463"},"modified":"2024-08-22T10:37:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T09:37:47","slug":"crown-commercial-service-to-boost-nhs-commercial-skills-and-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/crown-commercial-service-to-boost-nhs-commercial-skills-and-efficiency\/50463\/","title":{"rendered":"Crown Commercial Service to boost NHS commercial skills and efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"
CCS will provide NHS England with over \u00a315m funding\u2014an average of \u00a35.3 million each year over the next three years\u2014to support NHS Energy Management Capability and\u00a0create a first-of-its-kind NHS Commercial Learning & Development Academy aimed at boosting NHS commercial skills.<\/p>\n
This will offer the health service\u2019s commercial staff access to a range of learning and development opportunities to deliver a best-in-class workforce.<\/p>\n
The training programme supports the Government\u2019s agenda to grow the economy by ensuring that contracting authorities are able to effectively manage all the key stages of commercial delivery.<\/p>\n
This will also help support the delivery of wider NHS objectives, such as attaining better value and providing world-class patient care<\/a>.<\/p>\n The NHS uses energy to provide key care services for 1.6 million people every day. For example, energy is needed for staff to clean an area the size of Gibraltar and to provide 326,880 meals for patients and staff.<\/p>\n CCS\u2019s investment will support\u00a0 NHS commercial and business colleagues in buying and managing energy consumption and deliver better training on best practice skills and ways of working to improve the way that energy is procured and managed in the NHS in England.<\/p>\n These improvements will significantly contribute to finding efficiencies whilst supporting NHS net zero ambitions.<\/p>\nCommercial skills will drive energy efficiency in the NHS<\/h3>\n