The main areas in the procurement and proposals area of the DH website.
How DH goes about purchasing general goods and services.
Details of DH tendering exercises, as advertised in the Official Journal of the European Union (and, where appropriate, in other publications).
Calls for research proposals from national DH and NHS R&D programmes.
Guidance about the two main public private partnerships that the DH uses: the private finance initiative (PFI) and the NHS Local Improvements Finance Trust (NHS LIFT).
DH is extending the use of the Gateway Project Review Process to further support the delivery of the investment programme across the whole of the DH, its arms-length bodies and the NHS.

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Alphabetical listing of key DH policy areas and sections of the site.