NHS National Procurement's aim is to be recognised as a best-in-class procurement Centre of Expertise providing specialist supply services to NHSScotland and directly supporting the Health and Wellbeing of the people of Scotland.
NHS Scotland (NHSS) spends over £1billion each year, with over 13,000 suppliers, on hundreds of products ranging from MRI scanners to scalpels, from pens to potatoes, from nurses uniforms to needles. National Procurement (NP), directed by Michael Healy, launched as a new division of NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) on 29 November 2005 to fully enable the various Health Boards of NHS Scotland to 'buy together'.