NHS e-services 

HL-Cat Development and Maintenance

Healthlogistics provides a comprehensive service to healthcare providers requiring a new or improved catalogue. We have extensive experience of every aspect of the process:

• Identification of suppliers, data fields and formats required

• All communication with suppliers from initial contact to data processing

• Data collection from suppliers

• Automatic validation of data according to agreed specifications

• Quality assurance including compliance with current international standards

• Work with suppliers to raise data quality to the specified level

• Provision of class-leading catalogue software with customer-friendly web views of both filtered and full catalogue data, including net and list pricing

• Provision of eCommerce functionality enabling the provider to control the transaction process

• Configurable formatting to enable data import directly into ERP and PO systems.

  use a catalogue with cleansed and standardised data based on the supplier’s item code during the requisitioning and ordering process
• send out all orders electronically using the various means now available, ranging from autofax to XML
• receive back electronic status and invoice data from as many suppliers as possible, whether automatically or semi-automatically
• cover all those categories of goods and services that comprise supplies spend – including agency staffing
• pay for the above at a rate that is highly cost-effective and encourages maximum adoption.

We are able to provide catalogue data from any supplier including medical supplies, pharmacy, diagnostics, IT, food, office supplies, estates, agency staffing and utilities.

More than 250 leading suppliers now provide us with catalogue data, of which 30 are members of the HL-Cat Gold service for suppliers that fully meets NHS e-Catalogue Data Standards.

For further information on how we can support you in the development and construction of a validated catalogue, simply contact us for an informal discussion.