Case Study: Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust achieves better procurement performance with Science Warehouse

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Customer Case Study

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (WUTH), one of the largest acute trusts in the North West of England, faced a heavy administrative burden in catalogue management and struggled to compare spend and expand its catalogues to meet Carter Metrics targets. The trust needed a way to reduce manual procurement effort, standardise ad-hoc spend, and improve transactional purchasing performance. Vendor Science Warehouse is named in the prompt, while the case study text itself describes the service used as an Advanced eCatalogue solution.

Science Warehouse implemented a catalogue management solution that helped WUTH increase and manage its eCatalogues, cleanse spend data, and identify opportunities to add products to existing catalogues or create new ones. The results included more accurate PPIB submissions, improved benchmarking, better control of off-contract spend, and WUTH exceeding the 90% electronic addressable spend target in the first quarter of the financial year. The trust also saved approximately £17,000 per year in staffing costs and identified over £60,000 in potential savings by switching supply routes between direct ordering and NHS Supply Chain.

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Jane Christopher

Head of Procurement