Case Study: County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust (CDDFT) achieves multimillion savings and procurement excellence with Medius Spend Management

NHS saves $millions with Medius Spend Management

NHS CDDFT (County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust) was operating a legacy e‑requisitioning system that was reaching end of life while managing a large, fragmented supply chain (6,000 users, ~15,000 suppliers, ~600,000 product lines). The Trust needed tighter clinical and financial controls, Oracle ERP integration, a single easy‑to‑use purchasing portal to stop maverick spend, improve contract compliance, and gain visibility of cost per patient — so they engaged Medius and its Medius Spend Management suite.

Medius delivered a staged rollout of Medius Procurement, Sourcing and Contract Management (branded internally as Cardea), fully integrating with the Trust’s Oracle financials and supplier catalog feeds. The platform now processes ~15,000 purchasing documents per week and over 2 million orders to date, halved the supplier base to 7,500 and cut product lines to ~280,000, achieved $1.5M annual savings, ~85% invoice‑to‑order matching, released working capital and significantly improved compliance and patient‑level spend visibility — all delivered by Medius.

NHS CDDFT