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UK On Cusp Of Value-Based Procurement With NHS Future Operating Model Going Live

 
• By Ashley Yeo

The UK's complex system of procuring medical technology for use in the National Health Service is being simplified. A new system will go live on May 8 under the Future Operating Model (FOM), an initiative that prioritizes outcomes-based rationales and allows for gain-sharing, while also targeting annual NHS savings. At this early stage, the device industry and health-care providers are both displaying a mix of optimism and skepticism.

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The UK's National Health Service Supply Chain contract ended andproposals from a government reviewto reduce cost variation in NHS England's secondary care setting signaled a need to rethink the complex and costly NHS procurement methods for medical technology. The plan that emerged, the Future Operating Model, is designed to save NHS money annually, but not in the transactional sense. Instead, it deploys value-based health-care concepts that are designed to yield sustainable benefits for patients, as well as the payer and provider. Also see "UK Outlook 2018: Medtech Readies For Change To FOM System Of Value-Based Procurement" - Medtech Insight, 8 February, 2018.

FOM was the focus of an event hosted by the Association of British Healthcare Industries, the UK medtech industry association,...

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