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<p>Hospitals are wasting around £500 million a year due to wide variations in how they buy basic items, research has suggested.</p>
<p>Some trusts are paying 50% more than others for the same medical equipment and other supplies, while the whole process is not good value for money, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).</p>
<p>Even within individual hospitals, purchasing involves buying lots of different types of the same product.</p>
<p>Some 61 NHS trusts bought 21 types of A4 paper, 652 types of medical gloves and 1,751 cannulas, which are used for withdrawing or inserting fluid from a patient.</p>
<p>One trust bought 13 types of glove while another bought 177 types, the study found.</p>
<p>Overall, 61 trusts issued more than 1,000 orders each per year for A4 paper alone.</p>
<p>The NAO predicts that, for just four high-volume products, around £7 million in administration costs could be saved if the number of orders was reduced to the level achieved by the best 25% of trusts.</p>
<p>Most NHS trusts fall outside of the Government&#8217;s control, and this will soon become all under new NHS reforms.</p>
<p>The report said: &#8220;There is therefore no mechanism to secure commitment by 165 separate hospital trusts to purchase a single item or class of supplies, much less the hundreds of thousands of separate consumable products which the NHS uses.</p>
<p>&#8220;Many trusts take part in collaborative purchasing arrangements to some extent, but nevertheless, trusts are often paying more than they need to, for basic supplies.&#8221;</p>
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