Procurement exemption list

Certain goods and services are exempt from the Trust’s “no PO, no pay” policy—please check the following categories for clarification:

Accommodation fees
Agency nursing requested through MAPs
Agency staff (medical must go through bank/staff flow managed by HR)
Agency staff (non-medical) via bank
Building rental
Credit/procurement cards
Cremation and burial fees
Debt collection fees
Doctors’ and consultants’ payments—private patients
Document retrieval fees
HMRC payments including apprenticeship levy
Homecare
Hospital prescriptions
Import duties
Injury benefit payments
Legal services
Losses and compensation payments
Newspapers for private patients
NHS services
NHSLA payments
NHSSC consolidated invoices
Orthotics
Parent Accommodation for Paeds ITU
Pathology tests
Patient contact lenses and glasses
Patient eye tests
Patient translation
Patients’ fare
Rates
Salary recharges
Salary sacrifice—childcare, cycle schemes, vehicles, computers and mobile phones
Staff pensions
Supply via NHS supply chain
Utilities

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