NHSX - Listening to digital health innovators

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Dear NHS England,

Further to the document "Listening to digital health innovators", Publication date: 15 October 2019,

In Section 2, Procurement, you state:

"Link up procurement to accreditation and commercial systems with similar questions for procurement. This will lead on naturally to Aperta, NHS Digital (NHSD), Open source and a custodian model and develop an end-to-end process."

Please detail the engagement between NHS England and Apperta CIC, providing any/all materials concerning this relationship.

Yours faithfully,

Andrew Roberts

FOITEAMCRMMAILBOX (NHS ENGLAND & NHS IMPROVEMENT - X24), NHS England

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FOITEAMCRMMAILBOX (NHS ENGLAND & NHS IMPROVEMENT - X24), NHS England

Dear Andrew Roberts,

Re:      Freedom of Information request (Our Ref: FOI-2002-1143879)

Thank you for your Freedom of Information (FOI) request dated 18 February
2020

Your exact request was:-
 

“Listening to digital health innovatorsDear NHS England,

Further to the document "Listening to digital health innovators",
Publication date: 15 October 2019,

In Section 2, Procurement,  you state:

"Link up procurement to accreditation and commercial systems with similar
questions for procurement. This will lead on naturally to Aperta, NHS
Digital (NHSD), Open source and a custodian model and develop an
end-to-end process."

Please detail the engagement between NHS England and Apperta CIC,
providing any/all materials concerning this relationship.”

 
NHS England may hold recorded information in relation to your request.

However, we are unable to begin processing your request without further
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Under Section 1(3) of the FOI Act, an authority is not obliged to comply
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We would be grateful if you could clarify the following;
 

* Does this request relate to Apperta CIC, or the company named Aperta
referenced within the document?
* What is meant by Engagement? Does this (for example) relate to a
contractual agreement, collaborative working, or something else?
* What is meant by materials? Does this refer to (for example)
contractual arrangements, correspondence, meeting minutes, or
something else?

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0300 3 11 22 33, [2][NHS England request email].

Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information
Corporate Communications Team
Transformation and Corporate Operations Directorate

NHS England
PO Box 16738
REDDITCH
B97 9PT

Tel: 0300 311 22 33
Email: [NHS England request email]

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Dear NHS England,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of NHS England's handling of my FOI request 'NHSX - Listening to digital health innovators'. Your Ref: FOI-2002-1143879)

You asked:

* Does this request relate to Apperta CIC, or the company named Aperta referenced within the document?

I am referring to APPERTA CIC - I suspect that 'Aperta' is a spelling error.

* What is meant by Engagement? Does this (for example) relate to a contractual agreement, collaborative working, or something else?

Yes. The words contractual agreement, collaborative working describe the sort of engagement I am interested in

* What is meant by materials? Does this refer to (for example) contractual arrangements, correspondence, meeting minutes, or something else?

Please provide emails to / from Apperta CIC for the year 2019.

Thank you.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/n...

Yours faithfully,

Andrew Roberts

CONTACTUS, England (NHS ENGLAND & NHS IMPROVEMENT - X24), NHS England

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FOITEAMCRMMAILBOX (NHS ENGLAND & NHS IMPROVEMENT - X24), NHS England

Dear Andrew Roberts,  

Thank you for your Freedom of Information (FOI) request dated 5 April
2021.

Your original request was:

“Further to the document "Listening to digital health innovators",
Publication date: 15 October 2019,
 
In Section 2, Procurement, you state:
 
"Link up procurement to accreditation and commercial systems with similar
questions for procurement. This will lead on naturally to Aperta, NHS
Digital (NHSD), Open source and a custodian model and develop an
end-to-end process."
 
Please detail the engagement between NHS England and Apperta CIC,
providing any/all materials concerning this relationship.”

Your clarified request was:

“You asked: * Does this request relate to Apperta CIC, or the company
named Aperta referenced within the document? I am referring to APPERTA CIC
- I suspect that 'Aperta' is a spelling error. *

What is meant by Engagement? Does this (for example) relate to a
contractual agreement, collaborative working, or something else? Yes. The
words contractual agreement, collaborative working describe the sort of
engagement I am interested in *

What is meant by materials? Does this refer to (for example) contractual
arrangements, correspondence, meeting minutes, or something else? Please
provide emails to / from Apperta CIC for the year 2019.”

NHS England holds information in relation to your request.

NHS England had an Innovations & Partnership function which was
transferred to NHS Digital in June 2016. The Code4Health initiative was
part of their remit to encourage open source.

Within NHS England, the Code4Health initiative had the ability to issue
grants to open source code developers, and issued a grant to Apperta. NHS
Digital does not have the legal powers to issue grants, and therefore when
the responsibilities transferred to NHS Digital this arrangement was
terminated. Any procurement to engage with open source code developers to
develop open source products to be used within the health sector was
through usual procurement routes.

NHSX can confirm that as of April 2021 they have no contact, connection or
emails at all with Apperta in 2019 or any year.

Please note that the previous quote from the “Listening to Innovators”
report was not made by NHSX, it was a comment that was received as part of
our listening. As such, this is not a policy statement. The aforementioned
comments are included within the report.

The report can be accessed from the link below:
 

* [1]https://www.nhsx.nhs.uk/media/documents/...

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Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information
Communications Team
Office of the Chairs, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer

NHS England
PO Box 16738
REDDITCH
B97 9PT

Tel: 0300 311 22 33
Email: [NHS England request email]
 

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