FOI – 2025-000063 Diabetes Tech Brands Guidance (HTML)

Date received – 25 February 2025 | Date responded – 18 March 2025

Request

In accordance with the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, I would like to request the following information.

Please supply all current guidance that is used by the procurement team when securing diabetes technology and also any guidance that is passed onto health boards with regards to diabetes tech brands, especially with regards to CGMs.

If there are any issues with my request, please let me know.

Response

We have now completed the search of our records and can provide you with the following information:

Under section 17 of the Freedom of Information Scotland Act (FOISA) 2002, an organisation does not have to provide that information if it does not hold it. NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) does not use any guidance when securing diabetes technology. However, NSS National Procurement (NP) are responsible for establishing a procurement framework agreement for NHSS Health Boards (HB) to purchase their diabetes technology from.

This follows our standard NP tender process where a Commodity Advisory Panel (CAP) is formed consisting of HB procurement, technical and clinical colleagues who collaborate with the NP team to agree specifications and subsequently review and evaluate the tender responses provided by the suppliers. The CAP then agrees which suppliers/devices will be awarded to the Procurement Framework Agreement and this forms the approved suppliers/devices catalogue which HBs then use to make their buying decisions. NP does not decide which devices from the catalogue will be offered to patients, this decision sits within the HBs. You may wish to contact the local HBs using the addresses for further information:

• Ayrshire and Arran - foi@aapct.scot.nhs.uk
• Borders – foi.enquiries@borders.scot.nhs.uk
• Dumfries and Galloway – dg.feedback2@nhs.scot
• Fife – fife.foirequestfife@nhs.scot
• Forth Valley – fv.freedomofinformation@nhs.scot
• Grampian – gram.foi@nhs.scot
• Greater Glasgow & Clyde – foi@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
• Highland – nhsh.foirequestshighland@nhs.scot
• Lanarkshire – foi@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
• Lothian – foi@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
• Orkney – ORK.FOIrequests@nhs.scot
• Shetland – shet.foi@nhs.scot
• Tayside – tay.informationgovernance@nhs.scot
• Western Isles – wi.foi-requests@nhs.scot
• Healthcare improvement Scotland - his.foi@nhs.scot
• NHS24 – foi@nhs24.scot.nhs.uk
• NHS Education for Scotland - foidp@nes.scot.nhs.uk
• NHS Golden Jubilee FOI@nwtc.scot.nhs.uk
• Public Health Scotland - PHS.FOI@phs.scot
• Scottish Ambulance Service – sas.foi@nhs.scot
• State Hospital Board for Scotland - tsh.info@nhs.scot

I trust you will find the information of assistance and if you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

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