NHS: Software

(asked on 5th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse was of the (a) development and (b) maintenance of the NHS app in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 11th December 2023

The NHS App was created in 2019. The following table shows the costs to develop, or transform, and run and maintain the NHS App in each financial year since 2019:

Financial year

2019/20 (£ million)

2020/21 (£ million)

2021/22 (£ million)

2022/23 (£ million)

Transform

10.6

7.8

6.4

10.9

Run/Maintain

3.6

4.3

6.2

13.0

Total

14.2

12.1

12.6

23.9

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