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Market view

Thirty independent and authoritative reports. Sodexo owns position one. Government strategy and the capital plan sit in the top ten because they set the funding envelope every trust works inside. The currency badge tells you whether a source is still safe to quote today. Competitor material now lives in the Competitors tab.

01Current 2025

Efficiency across healthcare . How outsourcing enhances efficiency

Sodexo UK Healthcare . 2025

Strategy

Sodexo's own market view. States that approximately half of NHS acute providers outsource support services and sets out savings ranges by bed count. The Priority-40 pool is derived from this view.

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02Current 2025

Fit for the future . 10 Year Health Plan for England

Department of Health and Social Care . July 2025

Strategy

The governing strategy every trust board is now planning against. Three shifts of hospital to community, analogue to digital and sickness to prevention.

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03Current 2026

10 Year Capital Plan for Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care . 2026

Estates

Sets the capital envelope for estates renewal to 2035. Read it to understand what a trust can and cannot fund inside CDEL.

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04Current 2025

Spending Review 2025

HM Treasury . June 2025

Financial pressure

The revenue and capital settlement behind every CIP target on the Priority-40. The productivity assumption is the number trust finance teams are held to.

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05Current 2025

Key facts and figures about the NHS

The King's Fund . 2025

Strategy

The independent authority on NHS structure and finance. Confirms the provider count that sits behind the unoutsourced pool claim.

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06Current 2025

ERIC 2024/25 . Estates Returns Information Collection

NHS England . October 2025

Estates

The trust-level estates dataset. Cleaning cost per square metre, backlog maintenance and soft-FM spend for every provider in England.

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07Current 2026

PLACE 2025 . Patient-led assessments of the care environment

NHS England . February 2026

Estates

Published cleanliness, food and condition scores by site. The public measure a first-outsourcing business case has to move.

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08Current 2025

National standards of healthcare cleanliness 2025

NHS England . February 2025

Regulation

The standard every cleaning specification is written to. Functional risk categories, star ratings and audit frequency.

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09Current 2026

Estates, Facilities Management and Corporate Services Market Intelligence

NHS London Procurement Partnership . March 2026

Outsourcing economics

The buy-side view of the soft-FM market. Framework routes, pricing movement and supplier capacity as NHS procurement teams see it.

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10Current 2026

Accelerating estate solutions for neighbourhood health centre delivery

NHS Confederation . February 2026

Estates

How providers plan to deliver neighbourhood health estate at pace. Signals where new soft-FM demand appears outside the acute footprint.

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11Current 2025

State of health care and adult social care in England 2024/25

Care Quality Commission . October 2025

Regulation

The regulator's annual assessment. Read it for the inspection themes that make estate and cleanliness a board-level risk.

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12Current 2025

Down payment or making ends meet . NHS financial pressures

Nuffield Trust . 2025

Financial pressure

Independent analysis of deficit drivers in the run-up to the spending review. Useful framing for a trust carrying a recurrent gap.

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13Current 2026

The NHS workforce in numbers

Nuffield Trust . 2026

Workforce

Staffing, vacancy and turnover data including support services. The evidence base behind a TUPE and retention conversation.

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14Current 2026

Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 . Statutory guidance

Home Office . April 2026

Governance

Martyn's Law duties for qualifying premises. Directly shapes security, front-of-house and training scope in hospital soft-FM.

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15Current 2026

Environmental sustainability in the NHS

The King's Fund . April 2026

Net Zero

Independent read on how far NHS providers have moved on emissions. Frames the net zero line in any soft-FM proposal.

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16Superseded

Outsourced . the role of the independent sector in the NHS

British Medical Association . September 2024

Outsourcing economics

The critical case against outsourcing. Read it to know the objections a first-outsourcing board will hear from staff side.

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17Current 2025

Innovation for Impact . Unlocking the potential of the UK healthcare ecosystem

Boston Consulting Group . 2025

Productivity

Consultancy view of where UK health value is created. Useful language for a board that thinks in transformation terms.

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18Current 2025

Improving government productivity . A systemwide approach

McKinsey . 2025

Productivity

Cross-government productivity framing. Supports the argument that support services are a productivity lever and not a cost line.

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19Current 2026

The 2026 Global Health Care Outlook

Deloitte . February 2026

Strategy

Global operating pressures on health systems in 2026. Gives an external frame for a UK first-outsourcing conversation.

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20Current 2025

Healthcare 2035 . Dealing in the new health landscape

PwC UK . 2025

Strategy

Long-range view of how UK health provision and its supply chain reshape to 2035.

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21Current 2025

Mind the productivity gap . The public sector potential

EY UK . 2025

Productivity

Sizes the public sector productivity opportunity. Useful when a CFO asks what good looks like outside health.

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22Current 2025

Reimagining public services in the age of AI

Accenture . November 2025

AI

Where AI is landing in public service delivery. Sets the expectation trusts now bring to technology claims in tenders.

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23Superseded

Maintaining public service facilities

National Audit Office . 2024

Estates

NAO scrutiny of maintenance across public estate including the NHS backlog. Cite with the date visible.

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24Current 2025

Delivering productivity through the NHS estate

NHS England . 2025

Estates

NHS England's own view of soft-FM cost trajectory and the productivity frame every trust CFO now works to.

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25Current 2025

NHS secondary care . An overview

NHS Providers . 2025

Strategy

209 NHS trusts and foundation trusts in England. The definitive count of the sector and the denominator behind the pool.

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26Current 2025

Performance Tracker 2025 . NHS

Institute for Government . November 2025

Productivity

Independent scrutiny of NHS performance against government targets. Sets the political frame for CIP conversations.

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27Current 2026

Fiscal risks and sustainability report July 2026

Office for Budget Responsibility . July 2026

Financial pressure

The fiscal outlook health spending has to live inside. Read for the medium-term pressure on trust revenue budgets.

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28Superseded

Which technologies offer the biggest opportunities to save time in the NHS

The Health Foundation . April 2024

Productivity

Ranks technologies by staff time released. Supports a released-hours argument in a soft-FM proposal. Cite with the date visible.

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29Superseded

Exploring challenges and solutions for the NHS estate

CIPFA . September 2024

Estates

Finance profession view of capital and estate constraints. Cite with the date visible.

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30Superseded

Our greatest asset . Final report of the Commission on Health and Prosperity

IPPR . 2024

Strategy

Links population health to economic performance. Useful board framing beyond the cost case. Cite with the date visible.

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Trust-type coverage
40%

2 of 5 trust types covered by at least one LIVE Tier 1 artefact.

Tier balance
5 to 2

71 percent of LIVE artefacts are Tier 1. Aim for at least 60 percent Tier 1.

Trusts with zero cleared artefacts
35

These trusts cannot yet be cited from Sodexo material in outbound work.

Triggers without a how-to
6

Named trigger with no drafting playbook in the library.