When you work with the Alliance, you strengthen your workforce strategy with measurable results including cost savings and improved contract and supplier management. For those who may not be familiar with the full range of benefits available to NHS organisations, in our latest guidance article we’ve outlined key reasons to utilise the Alliance in your next workforce procurement
Proudly part of the NHS: We offer free-to-access support – we are self-funded via a supplier levy, and funds raised stay within the public purse.
Shared learning: The Alliance is a partnership between Crown Commercial Service and the four NHS-owned and operated collaborative procurement hubs. We have been working together since 2019 to combine our experience and expertise for the benefit of the NHS. This means we can leverage shared learnings and insights from all partner organisations and regional teams across the Alliance to support your workforce procurements.
Additional resource: As an NHS resource, support is available throughout your procurement projects, from specification design to in-life contract management, saving you time, resource, and cost.
Always easy to contact, incredibly helpful, supportive and knowledgeable. Great work, thank you.
Source: NHS Workforce Alliance Customer Satisfaction Survey 2025
Template documents: All our frameworks come with a set of template documents to use in your procurement process, so you don’t have to start from scratch or reinvent the wheel. We can support with completing them too, saving you additional time and avoiding common errors.
Mitigate risk: Our regional teams have a wealth of experience and can provide impartial advice. We can review your proposed processes and documents, identifying areas that may present a future challenge.
Compliance: Our robust auditing of temporary staffing suppliers underpins compliance across the temporary staffing workforce minimising non-compliant staffing practices. If compliance queries arise, our regional teams are available on hand to support.
Value for money: Whether Direct Award of Further Competition, we can ensure outcomes are aligned to our framework terms and conditions and are cost-effective. Queries can be resolved efficiently and effectively by reaching out to your regional team.
Market insight and intelligence: NHS workforce procurement is what we do. We currently work with over 900 suppliers so we can share in-depth knowledge on the supply markets. To save you time, we can identify your workforce challenges and propose the best available solutions, both regionally and nationally.
Data-driven ethos: Our advice is underpinned by data and evidence to support tailored procurement solutions and implementation, including regional and national benchmarking to help shape and refine your next procurement.
How can we help?
If you require support in your next procurement process, seek help to refine a current project or have a complex procurement challenge that requires additional resource, please reach out to us using the contact form on this website or email head office directly at [email protected] to be put in touch with your regional team.
