Primary Health Care: Capital Investment

(asked on 12th February 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with NHS England on alternative procurement routes for primary care modernisation proposals after the suspension in 2019 of new Local Improvement Finance Trust projects.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 24th February 2020

The local NHS England and NHS Improvement teams for the proposed National Health Service Local Improvement Finance Trust schemes in Heston and West Hull were informed in June 2019 that they will need to be locally prioritised and funded through available public capital.

There are a range of procurement routes available to deliver prioritised public capital schemes; these include using existing construction frameworks such as Procure 22 and standalone procurements. The most appropriate procurement route for each scheme in terms of value for money and affordability is considered as part of the business case for each scheme.

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