Clinical Commissioning Groups have now taken control of vast areas of the U.K's NHS budget creating one of the largest changes in the organisations history.

U.K based medical supplies group Medical Supermarket announces new commercial partnership with First Practice Management to grow membership base and increase the discount negotiation power of the buying group.

Leading U.K online medical supplies website company Procure Health, has teamed up with specialist GP website and magazine, to create a new discount website service.

U.K medical supplies buying group Medical Supermarket reported massive growth year on year in the first week of January 2013. A different approach to the traditional buying group model, one without membership fees, ties to brands or manufacturers and

With mounting budget pressures being placed on primary healthcare providers. The focus is very much falling on some of the medical supplies industries tactics for generating profit. Many GP's are looking out for new ways to beat overpricing.

By April 2013 all U.K primary health care providers will have to under go a process of auditing their regulated activities as described by the 2008 Health and Social Care Act. This will have a big influence on how medical supplies are purchased.