Working with us

We partner with leading healthcare providers around the world to provide support services enabling them to deliver world class patient care.

At KFM our vision is to lead change and deliver excellence within healthcare. By partnering with us, we can help you to achieve your organisational goals.

Why KFM?

  • KFM has successfully provided a broad range of award winning support services in a very demanding and large scale environment at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust for over six years.

  • KFM purchase over £500m of goods and services each year.

  • KFM’s focus is on efficiency, providing support services which complement our customers’ focus on patient care.

  • We aim to keep it simple, driving rapid improvement helping our customers achieve their organisational goals.

  • KFM use the latest technologies to ensure the provision of high quality support services which are cost effective and responsive.

  • KFM employs, motivates and retains the best people to create a high performing team.

  • KFM works in partnership with our customers, maintaining a relentless focus on service delivery, customer satisfaction and financial discipline.

We provide a fully managed, end-to-end procurement, supply chain and technical support service to King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (KCH), one of London’s major trauma centres.

We are responsible for managing an aggregate £500m spend for KCH covering clinical, capital and corporate procurement. In addition, we manage a fast growing independent sector spend in both the UK and overseas across a variety of clinical and non-clinical categories.

Our service includes Omnicell implementation, management and training in both the NHS and Independent Sector, including management of our existing fleet of over 450 Omnicell cabinets currently situated at KCH.

With a high-profile international presence and extensive strategic relationships with suppliers, we are well-positioned to support standardisation and rationalisation projects through our proven model in international markets.

Alongside King’s Commercial Services (KCS), our sister subsidiary within the King’s Group, KFM have a strategic partnership with Ashmore Group plc to help deliver clinical best practice and value for money procurement.

  • Cromwell Hospital, based in London, is an internationally renowned private hospital, operated by Bupa.

    At KFM, we provide clinical procurement services to the hospital across their entire clinical consumable and medical device spend and have successfully driven cost savings and operational efficiencies by improved supplier contracting, category management and standardisation programmes.

  • King Edward VII’s Hospital is an independent charitable hospital with a proud history of Royal Patronage, based in London.

    We are working closely with the hospital to provide a clinical procurement service to release revenue generating time spent by clinical teams on transactional ordering and procurement processes.

  • We have entered into a procurement partnership with King’s College Hospital Dubai in which we are leveraging our market position and global footprint with suppliers to enable the delivery of excellent financial benefits.

    Along with significant procurement savings, we offer clinical guidance, procedure profit & loss review against KCH London benchmarks and preferential discounted pricing on medical capital equipment.

Expertise you can trust

Our award winning Procurement and Supply Chain teams are focused and dedicated on working in partnership with our clients to deliver innovative solutions.

  • Through strong global partnerships with suppliers, we are able to purchase the required goods and services, achieving the best value for money and continuity of supply.

  • Our work with KCH and KCS means we are able to access clinical expertise and maintain high standards of clinical governance.

  • We are approved on the UK’s Department of International Trade’s export framework which allows companies and governments around the world to choose KFM as a British clinical procurement service provider.

 

Did you know?

Our end-to-end procurement and supply chain process enabled us to work with KCH to set up a Standardisation Committee to focus specifically on working together to procure better and more cost-effective products.

This in turn led to the rationalisation and standardisation of our product catalogue from over 48,000 product lines down to 14,000

By choosing to work with KFM, our team will be able to bring you the benefits of:

  • Freeing up clinical staff time to focus on patients

  • Better value for money

  • Alignment with globally recognised standards & guidance

  • Improving service quality

  • Additional support from your account manager

  • Standardised products, policies and procedures