Nhs insourcing contracts

• The five suppliers that won the most nhs insourcing contracts took 27% of them (74 of 277).
• Contracts awarded per quarter held steady across the period.
• The median contract, £246k, is 2.3 times the median across healthcare contracts (£106k).
• East of England had the most contracts: 50, or 18% of the total.

1. 1NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership31 contracts£220m
2. 2The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust27 contracts£1.4m
3. 3Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust15 contracts£95k
4. 4York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14 contracts£11.0m
5. 5Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust14 contracts£5.1m
6. 6Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust8 contracts£2.6m
7. 7Somerset NHS Foundation Trust8 contracts£1.4m
8. 8Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust8 contracts£928k
9. 9University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust7 contracts£8.8m
10. 10Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust7 contracts£5.4m

1. 1ID Medical20 contracts£20.6m
2. 2Your Medical Services15 contracts£8.6m
3. 318 Week Support13 contracts£9.8m
4. 4HEALTH NOW LIMITED13 contracts£2.5m
5. 5Intersource Medical Services Ltd13 contracts£2.4m
6. 6Outpatient Network13 contracts£1.6m
7. 7Xyla11 contracts£5.1m
8. 8Healthcare Business Solutions (UK) Ltd11 contracts£3.0m
9. 9Medinet10 contracts£2.4m
10. 10Elective Services Ltd7 contracts£723k

Latest

• BCU-FCONC-64313 - Urology Diagnostic - Insourcing (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £106k

  Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board to ID Medical · Awarded 2 October 2026

• Provision of Insourced Clinical Services - Dental and Gynaecology (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  Value not published

  King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to The Surgical Consortium · Awarded 1 October 2026

• Insourcing of Endoscopy Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £1.4m

  Swansea Bay University Health Board to ID Medical · Awarded 30 September 2026

• Insourcing of Neurophysiology Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £207k

  Swansea Bay University Health Board to MEDISERVICES HEALTHCARE LTD · Awarded 25 September 2026

• Insourced MRI Medical Imaging Services - NLAG (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £560k

  Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust to Diagnostic Healthcare Ltd · Awarded 21 September 2026

• Echo Scans Additional Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £324k

  South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to Xyla · Awarded 21 September 2026

• MSE PSA - Further Comp - Dermatology Insourcing (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £442k

  Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust to Your World Recruitment · Awarded 18 September 2026

• Neurophysiology insourced services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £95k

  Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to MEDISERVICES HEALTHCARE LTD · Awarded 17 September 2026

• Provision of Insourced ENT Support (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £677k

  University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust to Medinet · Awarded 16 September 2026

• Insourcing of Endoscopy Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £1.4m

  Cardiff and Vale University Health Board to ID Medical · Awarded 15 September 2026

Largest

• Framework Agreement for the Provision of Insourcing / Outsourcing Clinical, Surgical and Diagnostic Procedures (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £200m

  NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership to supplier not published · Awarded 14 July 2026

• Provision of Insourced Services for the Northern Care Alliance NOE.3007 (C386533) (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £9.6m

  Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust to Venture Healthcare · Awarded 15 January 2026

• OneLSC Ultrasound Insourced Service (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £7.6m

  East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust to Atlas Diagnostics · Awarded 19 December 2025

• Provision of Consultant Led Healthcare Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £5.3m

  Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to MERSEY HEALTHCARE LLP · Awarded 19 January 2026

• WPL06900 - Urology and OMFS Insourcing (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £4.3m

  University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust to 18 Week Support · Awarded 14 August 2026

A provider brings whole clinical teams into the buyer's hospital to run extra outpatient, theatre, endoscopy, imaging or diagnostic lists under its own clinical governance, usually to clear backlogs.

• Insourcing frameworks for NHS providers
• Outpatient insourcing
• Insourced gynaecology, cardiology, urology, ERCP, breast and imaging lists
• Insourced neurophysiology backlog clearance
• Staffed diagnostic imaging in the buyer's department

• Activity on the provider's own premises (hlt.acute.independent-sector-elective-activity)
• Mobile scanning units with their own staff (hlt.diag.outsourced-mobile-imaging)
• Mobile or outsourced endoscopy units (hlt.acute.outsourced-mobile-endoscopy)
• Individual locums and agency staff directed by the buyer (rec.clin.medical-locums, rec.clin.agency-nursing-midwifery)

• Elective surgery outsourcing
• Secondary care services

• Medical ventilators
• Orthopaedic implants