HOW NHS SBS OPERATES AT THE HEART OF HEALTHCARE
said : “ Since we started in 2005 we have grown to the point where we ’ re now providing Finance & Accounting , procurement and employment services to the NHS market .
“ We provide a platform and services for all the commissioning organisations and 30 percent of the provider organisations ; so those being the hospitals , ambulance and mental health trusts for example and the commissioners are the clinical commissioning groups which to an extent replaced primary care trusts in 2013 . They are dotted around the UK and buy services from those hospitals .”
There are over 300 NHS organisations currently using the finance and accounting service , and NHS SBS collects well over £ 1 billion a year through its system . It collects around £ 14 billion of debt and 7.5 million invoices are processed annually . In short , there is no other group
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