British National Formulary -Mailing Database Provider Tender

NICE is responsible for the distribution of hard copy prescribing guidance to Health Care professionals with a prescribing responsibility working within the English NHS.

This comes in the form of three publications; the British National Formulary (BNF) and the British National Formulary for Children (BNFC), which are distributed annually and the Nurse Prescribers Formulary (NPF) which is distributed biennially.

All three publications are published in September and collectively approximately 350,000 BNF and BNFC are currently distributed to the English NHS each year.

Approximately 25,000 NPF are distributed biennially.

The Mailing Database Provider will hold and manage the mailing database for all Health Care Professionals who are eligible to receive a BNF, BNFC or NPF (collectively BNF Publications).

They will deliver mailing lists for each BNF publication to the Hard Copy Storage and Distribution Provider in advance of each publication date.

They will also provide an enquiry handling service to deal with telephone and email queries from Healthcare Professionals regarding the delivery of BNF Publications.

The enquiry handling staff will also manage the mailing database, updating it as and when is necessary.