NHS England has issued a procurement discover for a £154.8 million contract to assist larger “personalisation” of digital providers and assist ship service upgrades.
The pipeline procurement discover, revealed on 15 July 2025, states that NHSE is “searching for to award a contract for a digital supply to assist Grownup Screening and Personalisation Digital Supply Associate Companies”.
It provides that the work would require “collaborative working with different NHS groups, significantly the NHS App”.
The contract will take impact on 1 July 2026 and run till 30 June 2029, with a potential choice to increase to 30 June 2031, which might take the deal to 5 years.
NHSE has not but begun a proper procurement course of, which is predicted to begin with the deliberate publication of a young discover on 16 September 2025.
The procurement discover comply with the publication of the federal government’s 10 12 months well being plan on 3 July 2025, which units out an ambition for the NHS to be ‘digital by default’, and focuses closely on the NHS App and ‘personalised, patient-centred care’.
By 2028 the NHS App is deliberate to be “a full entrance door to your complete NHS” which can present sufferers will “a physician of their pocket”.
Performance will likely be added to the app in each subsequent 12 months of the plan, together with a ‘My Well being’ instrument which can present private well being recommendation based mostly on related NHS knowledge resembling check outcomes and knowledge from wearables resembling step depend, coronary heart price and sleep high quality, to supply private well being recommendation.
“Sufferers can have actual alternative over the care they obtain, actual energy to steer their care staff (together with by way of the NHS App and a care plan), and care will likely be extra personalised”, the plan states.
In the meantime, in January 2025 NHS England awarded a contract price £37.5m to expertise consultancy agency BJSS Restricted, now a part of CGI, to ship “large-scale public dealing with digital providers to assist growth for NHS.UK and the broader portfolio which incorporates the NHS App and Login”.
NHSE is within the strategy of being introduced again into the Division of Well being and Social Care following an announcement by prime minister Sir Keir Starmer in March 2025.
