NHS: Information and Communications Technology
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Steven Baker (Wycombe, Conservative)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent assessment he has made of the procurement of IT equipment in the NHS.

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Simon Burns (Minister of State (Health), Health; Chelmsford, Conservative)

The Department does not undertake national procurement for information technology (IT) equipment in the national health service. The procurement of such IT equipment lies with each local NHS trust.

However, the Department did launch a new procurement strategy called the NHS Standards of Procurement on 28 May 2012, which is designed to help trusts ensure their procurement is effective, including the use of national contracts such as those provided by the Government Procurement Service, which does include IT equipment.

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