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Essex LMC Buying

This Group was established with the assistance of colleagues in the Trent LMCs’ Buying Group, the predecessor of which, established in Nottinghamshire in 1998, successfully negotiated discounts on flu and travel vaccines for many years, and from early 2000 on stationery and consumables. In 2006, the Trent LMCs Buying Group began working with procurement experts, Burns Associates, undertaking more detailed research and monitoring of deals negotiated.   Since 2008  membership has expanded and now comprises practices in 11 LMCs across the country.

The sole purpose of the buying group is to save practices money by negotiating discounts on goods and services which practices regularly use.  There is no obligation on practices to take up any of the negotiated deals although the more business they obtain the keener will be their desire to keep the business and the better the prices they offer us in the future.

The discounted goods and services that have been available to practices this year include:

• Flu vaccines
• Medical consumables
• Office stationery and furniture
• Medical equipment calibration and testing and electrical PAT testing
• Insurance products
• Gas, electricity and telephone discount negotiation
• Car purchase and leasing.