Question follow-through · 116470
Medical Equipment: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure the NHS is not dependent on single suppliers of medical products.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 27 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 5 Mar 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure the NHS is not dependent on single suppliers of medical products.
4 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Mar 2026
Answer published
Central procurement processes through NHS Supply Chain include a range of measures to prevent the dependency on single suppliers of medical products.When designing strategies, at category and sourcing strategy stages, NHS Supply Chain completes a category...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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