Breast Screening
Oral Answers to Questions — Health
2:30 pm
Paul Burstow (Minister of State (Care Services), Health; Sutton and Cheam, Liberal Democrat)
There are three aspects to that question. The first is that we need to ensure that providers can purchase equipment at the lowest possible price. That is why NHS Supply Chain is making arrangements to ensure that digital mammography is available at the lowest possible price to providers through the various initiatives it is taking. The primary responsibility sits with the provider to provide the equipment against which they have been commissioned to provide services. Of course, in the specification it makes for the service, the commissioner will make it clear that digital is required.