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Patient administration system contracts

UK public sector · 77 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
77
Last 12 months
Median contract
£603k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£631m
70 of 77 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
58
Suppliers
41

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

What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most patient administration system contracts took 30% of them (23 of 77).
  • The median contract, £603k, is 5.5 times the median across it & software contracts (£110k).
  • South West had the most contracts: 10, or 13% of the total.

Who buys patient administration system

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

  1. 1Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts
  2. 2Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust3 contracts
  3. 3Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts
  4. 4University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts
  5. 5NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership3 contracts
  6. 6Somerset NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts
  7. 7NHS England2 contracts
  8. 8North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts
  9. 9NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde2 contracts
  10. 10Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust2 contracts

Top patient administration system contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Access UK7 contracts
  2. 2The Phoenix Partnership (TPP)5 contracts
  3. 3Nervecentre Software Ltd4 contracts
  4. 4Dedalus4 contracts
  5. 5Epic3 contracts
  6. 6Altera Healthcare IT (UK) LTD3 contracts
  7. 7Liquidlogic3 contracts
  8. 8Optum3 contracts
  9. 9Vital Hub UK3 contracts
  10. 10Fortrus Limited2 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

11Q4 2025*31Q1 202623Q2 202612Q3 20260Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 64 · Wales 7 · Northern Ireland 4 · Scotland 2

South West10Yorkshire and The Humber9East of England9North West7Wales7South East6East Midlands4London4Northern Ireland4North East3West Midlands3Scotland2UK-wide or not stated9

What is included

The core clinical record and patient administration system for an NHS provider (acute, mental health, community or specialist services): registration, scheduling, clinical documentation and orders, bought as licence, implementation, optimisation or support.

  • Acute, mental health and community EPR/EHR
  • Patient administration system (PAS) replacement
  • ED and bed management modules bought with the EPR/PAS
  • EPR configuration, optimisation and support (Epic, SystmOne)
  • Child health information systems (CHIS)
  • Departmental records for single services (talking therapies, custody healthcare, orthotics PAS)

What is not included

  • Records shared across organisations -> it.lob.shared-care-record
  • Pathology LIMS -> it.lob.laboratory-information-system
  • Radiology RIS -> it.lob.radiology-information-system
  • Maternity system -> it.lob.maternity-information-system
  • GP practice clinical systems -> it.lob.gp-clinical-system
  • NHS Talking Therapies case management -> it.lob.talking-therapies-case-management
  • Ambulance electronic patient care records -> it.lob.ambulance-electronic-patient-care-record
  • Standalone theatre management and scheduling -> it.lob.theatre-management-and-scheduling
  • Pharmacy stock and e-prescribing -> it.lob.pharmacy-and-eprescribing
  • Council social care record -> it.lob.social-care-case-management

Often bought by the same buyers