Crown Commercial Service (CSS) formerly known as the Government Procurement Service, and the NHS London Procurement Partnership (LPP), have reintroduced the Energy Managers Forum for the NHS in London and the surrounding regions, ‘to tackle the challenges of energy demand management and cost control’.
The inaugural meeting in December was attended by energy managers representing most of the area’s secondary care providers.
Each forum (plans are to hold one three times a year) will be hosted by different CCS suppliers in rotation; EDF Energy volunteered its central London offices for December’s meeting.
LPP’s senior category manager in the Estates and Facilities team, Ed James, said: “Energy is a notoriously difficult category to influence, with prices currently heading in one direction. The forum’s purpose is to encourage the sharing of best practice, and review the mutual support we can provide to reduce energy consumption as individual organisations and collaboratively.”
Claire Gibney, CCS’s commercial delivery manager, added: “Managers and their staff involved in energy management, sustainability, and procurement, get regular communications from CCS, but also benefit greatly from meeting CCS and suppliers face-to-face. The Forum gives the NHS community the opportunity to do that and keep abreast of energy market developments, while providing support and practical advice on the best ways of using the CCS framework to meet the challenges of energy demand management and cost control.”
For information on upcoming forums, email: EHNenergy@CCS.gsi.gov.uk or Edward.james@lpp.nhs.uk.
