§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for Health which district health authorities in England and Wales have entered into a purchasing consortium arrangement.
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§ Mr. SackvilleThis information is not collected centrally. I understand that a number of district health authorities have entered into purchasing consortium arrangements. The latest information available, which reflects the situation up to May 1992, is set out in the table. The list does not include districts that have merged
DHA Purchasing consorita (by region) District health authorities Name of consortium Yorkshire RHA Northallerton, Scarborough, York, Harrogate, Airedale (Part) North Yorkshire Hull, East Yorkshire North Humberside Scunthorpe, Grimsby South Humberside Calderdale, Huddersfield, Dewsbury West Yorkshire Bradford, Airedale (Part) (no name) North East Thames RHA West Essex, North East Essex, Mid Essex North Essex Barking, Havering and Brentwood, Southend, and Basildon and Thurrock (no name) South East Thames RHA Lewisham and North Southwark, Camberwell, West Lambeth South East London Commissioning Agency Dartford and Gravesham, Medway, Maidstone, Tunbridge Wells West Kent Commissioning Agency South East Kent, Canterbury and Thanet East Kent Commissioning Agency Greenwich and Bexley (no name) Brighton, Eastbourne, Hastings East Sussex Oxford RHA Wycombe, Aylesbury Vale, Milton Keynes Buckingham Purchasing Agency South Western RHA Torbay, Plymouth, and North Devon Devon Management Consortium Mersey RHA Southport and Formby, South Sefton, St. Helen's and Knowsley, Liverpool North Mersey Wirral, Warrington, Halton, Chester, Crewe Wirral/Cheshire North Western RHA North, Central and South Manchester Manchester Purchasing Consortium Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble DHA with Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale DHA (no name) other RHAs None