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Written question asked by Matt Vickers (Conservative) on Friday, 13 June 2025, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 17 June 2025. It was answered by Karin Smyth (Labour) on Friday, 20 June 2025 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.


Oxygen: Medical Treatments

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England conducted site visits to all hyperbaric oxygen therapy providers who submitted bids under the recent commissioning process.

Answer

Site visits were not conducted as part of the formal procurement and subsequent evaluation or scoring processes. All bids were evaluated solely on the written responses provided within the bid submissions, in accordance with the published criteria.

Informal site visits, or an informal virtual meeting in the case of one provider, were held with the eight existing providers during 2024. These were solely to support the Commissioner’s understanding of service delivery models. Any information gathered during these visits was external to the provider selection process and was not considered in the scoring of the submissions from bidders.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
59787
Session
2024-26
Subjects
Medical treatments Oxygen
Link
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