GETTING AHEAD WITH NEC ADVISEINC
Healthcare organisations need to make confident decisions about what they buy. Too often, that means working with incomplete data, inconsistent pricing and limited visibility across spend.
At NEC Health, we help organisations make sense of healthcare spend through NEC AdviseInc. Our analytics bring together purchase order and invoice data into a clear, comparable view, so teams can understand true costs, identify variation and make informed purchasing decisions.
NEC AdviseInc is proven within the NHS, delivering line‑level visibility across £85bn+ of healthcare spend, benchmarking millions of products, and supporting more than 130 NHS trusts.
PLATFORM
PLATFORM
You’re in good company when it comes to analytics. Our Platform is widely used across the NHS and gives teams a clear, consistent view of healthcare spend.
When you sign in, you have access to all your available analytics in one place. From high‑level totals to individual transactions, our Platform lets you drill into the detail behind your numbers and get back to the underlying data with ease.
Platform gives you:
- An intuitive design that makes it easy to understand spend at a glance
- Full visibility of spend down to raw purchase order and invoice data
- Ongoing support through email, phone and regular training sessions
INSIGHT: The cost of variation in the NHS »
PLATFORM +
For teams that want deeper insight and additional support, Platform Plus builds on everything the Platform offers.
Alongside access to the Platform, our analytics specialists work with you behind the scenes to carry out more detailed analysis and help surface opportunities that might otherwise be missed. This means less time spent analysing data locally, and more time focused on acting on the insight.
Platform Plus gives you:
- Our team of analysts acting as an extension of your organisation
- Faster insight and clear value through deeper analysis
- Active support through regular meetings and in‑platform chat
INSIGHT: Connected data – How it powers faster and smarter procurement in healthcare »
ADDITIONAL CAPABILITIES
For organisations that want to go further, NEC AdviseInc offers additional modules that extend Platform to address specific operational challenges.
Workplan
Track cost improvement programmes and savings in one place, replacing spreadsheets with a clear, auditable view of work planning connected to spend.
Cat Check
Link catalogue data to spend analytics to identify off‑catalogue purchases, manage expired lines and focus effort on the products that matter most.
Inventory Management
Connect inventory systems to spend data to improve visibility, reduce waste and manage expiries across organisations and systems.
Who We Work With
We help all healthcare departments and are trusted by over 200 healthcare organisations. Alongside working directly with clients, we also collaborate with a network of approved data and delivery partners, helping organisations turn insight into action and extend the value of their spend analytics.
Find out more about our partner programme here »
Procurement
Our core users. We support procurement teams with clear visibility of spend, helping them compare prices, identify variation and focus effort where it delivers the greatest value.
Finance
We work closely with finance teams to provide transparency across spend and income, supporting stronger financial control and insight across key processes such as purchase to pay.
Clinicians
We use spend data to support conversations with clinicians, helping teams understand variation in product usage and compare practice across organisations and regions with confidence.
Non-clinical teams
We support non‑clinical teams, including estates, digital and HR, with clear insight into what is being bought, by whom and when, alongside simple benchmarking to support better planning.
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