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Healthcare spend analytics
Making sense of your spend data with NEC AdviseInc
Healthcare spend analytics
Making sense of your spend data with NEC AdviseInc
Better decisions through spend intelligence
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.
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.
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.
Platform
You’re in good company when it comes to analytics. 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, 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
Platform +
Platform +
For teams that want deeper insight and additional support, Platform Plus builds on everything the Platform offers.
Alongside access to 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
Unlock additional value from your data
Workplan
Managing cost improvement programmes across multiple teams, projects and priorities can be difficult when information is spread across disconnected spreadsheets and reports. Workplan brings cost improvement initiatives, savings opportunities and performance tracking into a single environment, creating a clear and auditable view of activity linked directly to spend data.
This enables organisations to track progress more effectively, monitor realised savings and ensure improvement programmes remain focused on delivering measurable value.
Cat Check
Understanding whether organisations are purchasing the right products at the right price requires visibility beyond spend alone. Cat Check links catalogue data to spend analytics, helping teams identify off-catalogue purchases, manage expired product lines and understand where variation exists across purchasing activity.
By highlighting opportunities for standardisation and compliance, Cat Check helps organisations focus their efforts on the products and categories with the greatest potential impact.
Inventory Management
Maintaining visibility of inventory across organisations and systems is critical to controlling costs and reducing waste. Inventory Management connects inventory and spend data to provide a clearer view of stock levels, usage patterns and product expiries across the supply chain.
By bringing these datasets together, organisations can make more informed inventory decisions, improve stock management and reduce unnecessary expenditure while ensuring products are available when and where they are needed.