Case Study: Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust achieves efficient, transparent multi-trust procurement with Planview ProjectPlace

NHS North West Mental Health Collaboration

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust led a collaboration of seven North West NHS trusts to procure a framework of Clinical Information Systems. With a 50‑person project team and a tight 13‑month schedule, they needed a project management solution to ensure equal input from all organisations, transparent version‑controlled document review, and accessible remote access across varied IT infrastructures. They selected Planview ProjectPlace (Projectplace) to meet these requirements.

Planview ProjectPlace delivered a web‑based planning and document management platform with a central repository, robust version control, permission groups, audit trails and real‑time collaboration tools. Quick to implement with strong training and support, ProjectPlace enabled some 40 staff to evaluate supplier bids without exchanging tens of documents by email, streamlined communication, prevented version conflicts and document loss, and helped the seven trusts keep pace and achieve local objectives within the tight timeline.

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Nadine Fry

Programme Manager