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Telemedicine

Volume 497: debated on Wednesday 14 October 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 15 July 2009, Official Report, column 550W, on telemedicine, in which (a) local authority and (b) primary care trust areas business has been procured through the Purchasing and Supply Agency Telecare National Framework Agreement. (289637)

This information is commercially confidential, as releasing it could give a commercial advantage to other organisations outside the framework agreement. The following table gives a high level breakdown of the number of organisations procuring through the framework.

Organisation type

Number of organisations

County Council

308

Acute

211

PCT

106

Borough Council

301

Northern Ireland Board

157

City Council

154

Ambulance

55

MHT

3

Housing Association

58

County Borough Council

16

Welsh Local Health Board

6

District Council

78

Housing Consortium

2

Local Council

8

Miscellaneous

4

City and Borough Council

3

Note:

The table shows the number of purchasing points it was set up around a trust having one purchasing point put in practice some may have more than one.