Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people at NHS England are working on the development of NHS England's updated regime for the second phase of device procurement.
There are currently two NHS England clinicians (who have other roles) working on the development of NHS England's updated regime for the second phase of device procurement, plus 0.2 staff (whole time equivalent) of clinical support. They will be joined by clinicians from the Clinical Reference Group and provider organisations once the evaluation process has started.