NHS Spend Comparison Service

The Spend Comparison Service brings together procurement data from over 200 NHS organisations into a single, standardised platform. It enables procurement professionals to analyse trends, benchmark pricing, track supplier performance and identify inefficiencies across different spend categories.

Learn more about the NHS Spend Comparison Service and how to access it.

The NHS Spend Comparison Service uses data from various sources including NHS Supply Chain, Shared Business Services (SBS) and NEP Cloud.

NHS trusts that are not NEP or SBS customers for procurement and finance need to upload 2 data collections for Spend Comparison regularly using the Strategic Data Collection Service (SDS) by completing 2 different kinds of templates.

The data collection service for non-NEP Cloud or SBS trusts is currently comprised of 2 data collections:

• Purchase Order (procurement data)
• Accounts Payable (non-pay accounts payable spend, finance data)

The data gathered from the collections is processed, normalised and then enriched, then displayed via analytical dashboards. The data is available to a variety of NHS procurement, finance and clinical users across England.

Data shared by the NHS Spend Comparison Service is only used by the NHS and Department for Health and Social Care and covered by robust information governance and IT security rules.