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(asked on 22nd November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the performance of (a) NHS England, (b) NHS Improvement and (c) Greenwich Clinical Commissioning Group in the awarding of the contract to provide musculoskeletal services in Greenwich to Circle Holdings PLC; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 25th November 2016

The procurement of local health services by means of competitive tendering is a matter for the local National Health Service.

NHS England has advised that it carried out an assessment of the procurement process that Greenwich Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) followed for the contracting of musculoskeletal services and was satisfied the CCG had followed due process.

We are informed that NHS Improvement did not have a role in this procurement process as it was a local commissioning decision for Greenwich CCG.

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