Maxxima Awarded Master Vendor Contract

Public Sector recruitment specialists, Maxxima, have been awarded a
major new contract to supply temporary Allied Health Professionals
(AHPs) and Health Science Service (HSS) staff to NHS organisations
throughout the Yorkshire and the Humber region.

The contract
will run until April 2009 with a possible year’s extension thereafter
and means that, for the first time, NHS organisations in the region
have one point of contact for all temporary recruitment across 27
different professions.

The Maxxima Collaborative is comprised
of two specialist suppliers, Labmed Recruitment supplying all AHP and
HSS professions and Piers Meadows Recruitment specialising in
Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy. The partnership was created in
December 2006 in order to provide the NHS with a robust Vendor Managed
Solution able to provide large scale cost savings whilst still
retaining the expert knowledge and attention to detail associated with
more specialist agencies in the market.

The organisations included within this contract are:

1. Airedale NHS Trust

2. Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

3. Barnsley PCT

4. Bradford and Airedale PCT

5. Bradford District Care Trust

6. Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

7. Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

8. Calderdale PCT

9. Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

10. Doncaster and South Humber Healthcare NHS Trust

11. Doncaster PCT

12. East Riding Of Yorkshire PCT

13. Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

14. Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

15. Hull PCT

16. Humber Mental Health Teaching NHS Trust

17. Kirklees PCT

18. Leeds Mental Health Teaching NHS Trust

19. Leeds PCT

20. Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

21. Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

22. NHS Yorkshire & the Humber Strategic Health Authority

23. North East Lincolnshire PCT

24. North Lincolnshire PCT

25. North Yorkshire and York PCT

26. North Yorkshire and York PCT

27. Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Trust

28. Rotherham PCT

29. Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Health Care NHS Trust

30. Sheffield Care Trust

31. Sheffield Childrens NHS Foundation Trust

32. Sheffield PCT

33. Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

34. South West Yorkshire Mental Health NHS Trust

35. The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

36. Wakefield District PCT

37. York Hospitals NHS Trust

The contract is the result of a six month long project undertaken by
the Yorkshire and The Humber Commercial Procurement Collaborative as
part of which a formal selection process involving YHCPC Strategic
Procurement Liaison Managers - Dino Tsagris and John Burton, the NHS
PaSA Category Team and senior AHP and HSS representatives, was carried
out. John Burton - Strategic Procurement Liaison Manager said “One
of the biggest problems we faced was that there were so many different
agencies being used and every one of them was charging a different
rate. By appointing a Master Vendor, we simplify the whole process and
ensure that one company has total responsibility for candidate
screening and recruitment.”

There are also likely to be
substantial cost savings as a result of Maxxima’s appointment, with the
Master Vendor exercising far greater control of temporary staffing
expenditure whilst working with the Trusts involved to reduce their
dependency on locum cover in the long term.

Maxxima Contracts Manager Neil Webb is justifiably proud of his company’s achievement; “We’ve
worked hard over the past few months to build a Master Vendor model
which provides the NHS with the most efficient service possible. The
partnership between Labmed and Piers Meadows dovetails perfectly as it
allows both companies to focus on their strengths without any
cross-over. The client can therefore rest assured that they are always
being looked after by specialists in their profession.”

The
contract, which comes into effect from Monday 26th February 2007, will
operate under the terms of the current NHS PASA National Framework
agreement.

For more information please contact Neil Webb, Maxxima Contract Manager on 07900 956136 or by email to nw@maxxima-group.co.uk

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