Provision of Cranioplasties

Concepts

• sheffield
• fracture appliances, pins and plates
• cranioplasties
• house
• month
• training
• clinical engineering
• materialise
• the service
• 12 months

Location

Northern General Hospital<br/>Herries Road<br/>Sheffield <br/>S5 7AU

Description

The team have been working and purchasing these plates for the past 12 months from Materialise. In this time training has been provided to bring this service back in house however clinical engineering feel they are not at the stage to bring this service back in house and that a further 12 months of training will be required. Now that the initial backlog has been cleared, they feel that at most 3-4 plates will be required per month allowing sufficient time to be spent on training to confidently bring the service back in house.

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 33141770 - Fracture appliances, pins and plates

Indicators

• Award on basis of price and quality.

Legal Justification

The team have been working and purchasing these plates for the past 12 months from Materialise. In this time training has been provided to bring this service back in house however clinical engineering feel they are not at the stage to bring this service back in house and that a further 12 months of training will be required. Now that the initial backlog has been cleared, they feel that at most 3-4 plates will be required per month allowing sufficient time to be spent on training to confidently bring the service back in house.