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NHS IT Support

Volume 448: debated on Thursday 6 July 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the contracting timetable in paragraph 4.4.1 of Delivering 21st century IT support for the NHS, how many of those procurements have been made; when they were made; from whom; and what the value is of the contract in each case. (75129)

The information requested is shown in the tables. Contract values are for the whole life of the contract.

Procurement

When

Contractor

Value (£ million)

E-mail and directory services1

September 2002

EDS

120

Privacy-enhancing technologies

2

2

2

Networking services

February 2004

BT

530

National electronic Library for Health (NeLH)

April-August 2003

See separate table

4.6

NHS Wide Clearing Service

December 2003

BT

3

Ambulance radio procurement

July 2005

Airwave 02 Ltd.

390

1 Contract subsequently terminated in March 2004 and re-let to Cable and Wireless in July 2004 at a contract value of between £50 million and £90 million depending on take-up. 2 No separate procurement. Functionality specified in all core National Programme for Information Technology system contracts. 3 Procured as the Secondary Uses Service as part of the Spine contract.

NeLH components

Section/lot

Contractor

Health Information Environment

Web hosting

Eduserv

Access management

Eduserv

Specialist consultancy

Not awarded

Search metadata

TRIP Ltd.

Content

Current news analysis service

University of York

Clinical guidelines database

University of Sheffield

Specialist libraries

Cancer

Oxford Radcliffe

Child health

Sheffield Childrens Hospital

Communicable diseases

City University

Emergency care

University of Warwick

Ear, nose and throat

Oxford Radcliffe

Eyes and vision

Moorfields Eye Hospital

Genetics

Genepool

Health management

Kings Fund

Old age

Oxford Radcliffe

Learning disabilities

Oxford Radcliffe

Patients and public involvement

College of Health

Mental health

Oxford Radcliffe

Nutrition

University of Warwick

Oral health

University College Hospital Wales

Respiratory medicine

Sheffield University

Skin conditions

Nottingham

Women’s health

Oxford Radcliffe