NHS: Procurement

(asked on 3rd June 2019) - View Source
Questioner
Virendra Sharma Portrait
Virendra Sharma
(Labour - Ealing, Southall)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the average number of suppliers that are supplying each product purchased through the Nationally Contracted Products initiative in the most recent period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by
Stephen Hammond Portrait
Stephen Hammond
This question was answered on 6th June 2019

The following table shows the number of suppliers on each of the live Nationally Contracted Products (NCP) projects run by the new NHS Supply Chain.

Live NCP Projects

Number of Suppliers

Blunt Fill Needles

3

Facemasks

1

Fixation Pants

2

Surgical Theatre Gowns

1

Nitrile Examination Gloves

3

Oxygen and Suction Tubing

2

Pre-Filled Syringes

1

Specimen Swabs

2

Specimen Containers

4

Ultrasound Gels

2

Copier Paper

1

Couch Rolls

1

Electrodes

3

Average

2

Reticulating Splines