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Musculoskeletal services contracts

UK public sector · 52 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
52
Last 12 months
Median contract
£656k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£147m
46 of 52 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
30
Suppliers
37

BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned

What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most musculoskeletal services contracts took 31% of them (16 of 52).
  • The median contract, £656k, is 6.2 times the median across healthcare contracts (£106k).
  • Yorkshire and The Humber had the most contracts: 8, or 15% of the total.

Who buys musculoskeletal services

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board6 contracts
  2. 2NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB6 contracts
  3. 3NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care Board5 contracts
  4. 4NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board3 contracts
  5. 5NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board2 contracts
  6. 6Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts
  7. 7Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust2 contracts
  8. 8NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board2 contracts
  9. 9Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts
  10. 10Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust2 contracts

Top musculoskeletal services contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Practice Plus Group4 contracts
  2. 2Flok Health4 contracts
  3. 3Cora Health3 contracts
  4. 4Ascenti3 contracts
  5. 5Allied Health Professionals Suffolk CIC2 contracts
  6. 6Connect Health2 contracts
  7. 7Premier Physical Healthcare Limited2 contracts
  8. 8PASTEL HEALTH LTD2 contracts
  9. 9Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust1 contract
  10. 10Circle Clinical Services Limited1 contract

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

6Q4 2025*34Q1 20267Q2 20265Q3 20260Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 52

Yorkshire and The Humber8East of England8South East8North West7East Midlands7West Midlands5London4South West3North East2

What is included

Musculoskeletal triage, assessment and treatment, exercise programmes for joint pain and community chronic pain services for referred and self-referred patients.

  • Integrated MSK services
  • MSK triage and physiotherapy
  • ESCAPE-pain and exercise programmes for osteoarthritis
  • Community chronic pain services
  • Hospital and community pain management and rheumatology clinical services

What is not included

  • Staff physiotherapy bought by employers (rec.occh.staff-physiotherapy-msk)
  • Orthopaedic surgery (hlt.acute.independent-sector-elective-activity)
  • Carpal tunnel clinics (hlt.comm.community-specialist-clinics)
  • Podiatry (hlt.comm.community-therapy-rehabilitation)
  • Orthotics (hlt.comm.prosthetics-orthotics-services)
  • MSK diagnostic pathways with imaging (hlt.diag.rapid-diagnostic-pathways)

Often bought by the same buyers