TeleTracking Technologies

(asked on 22nd January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is the annual cost to the public purse of each of the five Patient and Asset Tracking pilots being delivered by TeleTracking Technologies is; and what funding is being provided nationally for those pilots.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 30th January 2018

Teletracking has been piloted at five Patient and Asset Tracking pilot sites across the National Health Service. These sites had already made the decision locally to implement the Teletracking patient workflow system.

The trusts implementing this system used their own locally driven procurement processes to select providers and as each local trust has agreed the commercial arrangements associated with teletracking independently, information on costs is not centrally available. National funding has not been made available to the pilots.

As the process for selecting providers was undertaken locally by trusts, the assessment of value for money will have formed part of the locally driven procurement processes. The pilot sites have agreed to a set of metrics to be shared with NHS Improvement in order to evaluate impact and inform value for money.

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