§ The Minister of State, Department of Health (Mr. John Hutton)I am 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 2002–03 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 to develop a co-ordinated implementation plan for doing so. The business plan sets out clearly how the Agency will achieve these aims.