Wednesday 19th January saw the release of the Health and Social Care Bill 132. We can now formally see how dramatic the changes actually are and get an appreciation of how the new bill will affect not only the services we receive but more importantly how they are delivered and who will deliver them. PCTs and SHAs will be abolished totally and the majority of responsibility (from an NHS perspective) will be passed over to GPs and GP consortia. This will open up new local opportunities for suppliers, but many fear that most of the opportunities will, as ever, bypass smaller firms and be directed straight to the main players who may or may not sub contract the work out. The best thing to do is identify who are the new / proposed consortia in your area and approach them, expressing an interest in providing, to them, your goods / services. You need to have a unique selling point so that you stand out from the rest of the crowd as you will be just one of MANY companies contacting these consortia's directly.

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