Bidders Open Day

With over 70 attendees from 38 organisations the Health Investment Plan Bidders Open Day proved a great success.

The proceedings commenced with a presentation on the project by the three partners and members of the project team. The key messages included:

• The project is being brought to the private sector by an extremely successful partnership of NHS organisations.
   

• There is a clear strategy for the modernisation of local health services and a commitment to deliver the strategy.
   

• All the stakeholders have been actively involved in developing the strategy.
   

• The project is at a proven state of readiness to proceed to procurement.
   

• The procurement process will be well managed by an experienced team and completed within an ambitious but realistic timescale.
   

• There are many opportunities for the private sector to contribute to the project, and considerable scope for design innovation.

After the formal presentations Angela Broekhuizen, the Project Clinician, gave a short talk on the four main patient pathways. During lunch the attendees met the project team, the advisors and members of staff from the three organisations. Following lunch there was coach tour to the Edith Cavell Hospital and Fenland Wing sites where the developments are to take place.

The list of attendees at the bidders day is available here.