Within three years of the publication of this Report, the systems for the procurement and distribution of healthcare equipment should be digitalised and interoperable across the UK government and devolved administrations.

As a minimum, these systems should be able to use technology to collect, share and analyse data across the UK in real time on:

pandemic stockpiles, health and social care sector inventories and usage rates;
offers of supply, enabling automated comparison, triaging and processing;
non-compliant healthcare equipment entering the market;
supply chains, including international delivery times and domestic logistics and distribution data;
procurement and distribution workforce capacity; and
spending – automatically identifying, collecting and collating key contract data for publication.