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NHS: Information and Communications Technology
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will estimate his Department's expenditure on its toolkit for the National Programme for IT; and whether capital for this expenditure will be allocated from the original budget for the programme. [272801]
Mr. Bradshaw: It is not yet possible to make a meaningful estimate of all the costs involved. However, we anticipate that they will be met from within existing budgetary provision for the national programme.
Mr. Stephen O'Brien:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many sites in the Southern cluster of the National Programme for IT are (a) due to deploy
and (b) in the process of deploying (i) the RiO information system and (ii) Cerner Millennium under the management of BT; [272806]
(2) for how many (a) trusts and (b) sites in the Southern cluster of the National Programme for IT BT has now assumed responsibility. [272807]
Mr. Bradshaw: In the southern programme for information technology, previously the southern cluster, the eight acute trusts that had previously installed Cerner Millennium under Fujitsu as local service provider are transferring to BT. In addition, four more acute trusts are planning to deploy the system, three of which are in the early stages of deployment. In all, these deployments will cover 26 sites.
Under the same arrangement, 22 community and mental health trusts are due to deploy the RiO system at 25 sites, including one trust which has already started work on deployment.
Mr. Oaten: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether provision of the regional distribution centre to provide a loan equipment delivery service for complex equipment as part of the transforming community equipment programme will be subject to a competitive tender should the centre be established. [274165]
Phil Hope: Local authorities and their health partners who may consider commissioning a regional solution for complex equipment are required to comply with all relevant European Union procurement legislation.
Physiology
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to consult on proposals for the regulation of clinical physiologists. [273274]
Mr. Bradshaw: We intend to develop proposals for the regulation of the health care scientist work force, including clinical physiologists, this year.
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