Secondary care services contracts
UK public sector · 84 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
- 84
- Last 12 months
- Median contract
- £45.9m
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £43bn
- 71 of 84 main-service contracts have a published value
- Buyers
- 38
- Suppliers
- 99
8 secondary care services contracts ending in the next 12 months
See which ones
BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned
What stands out
- The five suppliers that won the most secondary care services contracts took 10% of them (8 of 84).
- The median contract, £45.9m, is 434.7 times the median across healthcare contracts (£106k).
- North West had the most contracts: 19, or 23% of the total.
Who buys secondary care services
By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB14 contracts£4.6bn
- 2NHS England9 contracts£34.0m
- 3NHS North West London ICB7 contracts—
- 4NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board5 contracts£2.1bn
- 5NHS North East London Integrated Care Board3 contracts£12bn
- 6NHS Devon Integrated Care Board3 contracts£8.5bn
- 7The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts£724k
- 8East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust3 contracts£86k
- 9NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board2 contracts£2.6bn
- 10NHS Surrey and Sussex Integrated Care Board2 contracts£2.0bn
Top secondary care services contractors by contracts won
The 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust5 contracts£3.5m
- 2Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust4 contracts£4.2m
- 3University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust4 contracts£3.4m
- 4Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts£1.5m
- 5Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts£1.5m
- 6Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts£1.1m
- 7University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts£1.0m
- 8University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust3 contracts£392k
- 9Barts Health NHS Trust2 contracts£6.3bn
- 10University Hospitals of Liverpool Group2 contracts£1.0bn
Latest and largest awards
Each links to the official notice.
Latest
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust to University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust · Awarded 24 September 2026
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust to Evelina London Children's hospital · Awarded 16 September 2026
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Multi-Services 2025-2027 (official notice, opens in a new tab)
£200k
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust to West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust · Awarded 4 September 2026
Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust · Awarded 26 August 2026
NHS England to Alder Hey Children's NHS FT, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Leeds Teaching Hopsital NHS Foundation Trust · Awarded 24 August 2026
Public Services Delivery Scotland to supplier not published · Awarded 18 August 2026
NHS Surrey and Sussex Integrated Care Board to Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Awarded 31 July 2026
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust to Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust · Awarded 24 July 2026
NHS England to British Thoracic Society · Awarded 21 July 2026
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust to Independent Vascular Services Ltd · Awarded 30 June 2026
Largest
NHS North East London Integrated Care Board to Barts Health NHS Trust · Awarded 16 June 2026
NHS Devon Integrated Care Board to Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · Awarded 26 November 2025
NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board to York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Awarded 11 March 2026
NHS North East London Integrated Care Board to Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust · Awarded 15 June 2026
NHS North East London Integrated Care Board to Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · Awarded 5 November 2025
Contracts awarded by quarter
Where the contracts were awarded
England 83 · Scotland 1
What is included
Commissioner contracts with NHS trusts or specialist centres for acute hospital care or single specialised services (neurosurgery, neurology, cardiac, rare disease and other tertiary care), including specialist opinion given remotely such as telestroke and teledermatology triage, and sub-contracts that pass such activity between providers.
- ICB contracts for whole acute trust services
- Acute activity sub-contracts between trusts
- A&E and acute services lots in ICB provider selection
- Cancer, radiotherapy and systemic anti-cancer treatment services from another trust
- Neurosurgery, neurology, spinal and pain services
- Heart valve referrals to a specialist centre
- Rare disease diagnosis and management services
- Extracorporeal photopheresis
- Ex-vivo lung perfusion for transplant
- Telestroke thrombolysis support
- Medical photography for teledermatology triage
What is not included
- Waiting-list elective activity from independent providers (hlt.acute.independent-sector-elective-activity)
- Insourced teams in the buyer's own hospital (hlt.acute.insourced-clinical-teams)
- Remote imaging reporting (hlt.diag.teleradiology-reporting)
- Community health services contracts (hlt.comm.integrated-community-health-services)
- Whole-system mental health contracts (hlt.mh.integrated-mental-health-services)
- National clinical audits and registries (it.lob.clinical-registry-and-audit)
- Telemedicine and video consultation platforms (it.lob.video-consultation)