HL Deb 31 March 2004 vol 659 cc64-5WS
Lord Warner

We are publishing today the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency's annual business plan. Copies have been placed in the Library.

The business plan highlights the agency's achievements in 2003–04 and sets out the key tasks and targets for the coming year.

This comprehensive plan has been formulated within the context of the agency's ongoing remit to lead the modernisation of the NHS purchasing and supply function. The agency has a strategic role to set out a major development agenda for purchasing and supply in the NHS and working with the commercial directorate has developed a co-ordinated implementation plan for doing so. The business plan sets out clearly how the agency will achieve these aims.