Health Services: Procurement

(asked on 11th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many agreements have been signed by clinical commissioning groups which are not subject to the tariff system.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 20th October 2017

Information is available on the number of local variation templates received by NHS Improvement and can be found in the table below.

Year

Number of local variation templates

2014/15

186

2015/16

278

2016/17

106

Notes:

Local variations are adjustments to a national price or a currency, agreed by one or more commissioner and one or more provider. Variations can vary in scope from single procedures to groups of services.

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