NHS Supply Chain

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The NHS Supply Chain is a joint venture between the NHS Business Services Authority and DHL. The organisation's role is to provide a dedicated supply chain to the English NHS. The contract for the venture was signed in September 2006 and became active in October 2006. Before the outsource, the organisation was called NHS Logistics Authority and then simply NHS Logistics. Some elements of NHS Purchase and Supply Agency were also transferred over to the new organisation.

The organisation has a number of warehouses in the following locations:

• Alfreton, Derbyshire - Head Office
• Bridgwater, Somerset
• Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk
• Maidstone, Kent
• Normanton, West Yorkshire
• Runcorn, Cheshire

and two office based sites:

• Reading, Berkshire
• Chester, Cheshire

[edit] External links

• NHS Supply Chain
  
• DHL's NHS Supply Chain site
  
• NHS PASA
  
• Department of Health press release on outsourcing of NHS Logistics.