Making collaboration count: Unlocking procurement value across three NHS trusts

Humber and North Yorkshire Procurement Collaborative (HNYPC) was established by three NHS trusts in response to the national strategy promoting Integrated Care System (ICS) working. Its goal was to tackle a pressing challenge: delivering greater value in an already-stretched financial environment. With a five-year savings target of ~17%, the ambition was to move beyond tactical, short-term cost reduction and build a strategic function that could fully leverage synergies.

This Procurement Collaborative brought together more than 130 FTEs to support eight hospitals under shared governance, systems, and spend management. The scale and complexity of the transformation required strong strategic direction and focused delivery.

To support this, HNYPC partnered with Efficio and AdviseInc, combining healthcare-specific spend analytics with deep procurement expertise. The partnership focused on driving savings across clinical and non-clinical spend, while embedding a collaborative operating model and building long-term procurement capability.

The approach: Delivering impact through data-led action

To meet the Collaborative’s ambitious savings target over five years, the joint HNYPC-AdviseInc-Efficio team needed to build a unified procurement model capable of delivering both rapid savings and lasting impact.

At the foundation was a single, consolidated view of spend across the three trusts, developed using AdviseInc’s national healthcare analytics platform. This shared visibility enabled accurate benchmarking, categorisation, and opportunity identification, allowing the team to prioritise initiatives. With this visibility in place, Efficio could then rapidly identify pipeline savings opportunities and support data-led conversations with suppliers and internal teams. The joint team moved quickly to deliver impact across key procurement levers: