What is NETIS?
NETIS is a comprehensive, user-friendly database that will consolidate medical asset data from NHS trusts across the UK to provide an accessible, coherent view of the NHS landscape.
This holistic, real-time perspective will enhance decision making at a national, regional and local level, providing opportunities to reduce costs, through economies of scale, alongside strengthening resilience and improving patient outcomes by ensuring that the right product is in the right place at the right time.
For further information, please see our FAQ section, or contact the NETIS team at
NETIS
Benefits
Supports National Policy Decision Making
System reporting and analytics will enable our Government, and key NHS bodies* to make data-driven decisions on a national scale, whilst also supporting long term systemic change.
*NHS England, NHS Supply Chain, the Department for Health and Social Care, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.Informs Strategic Replacement Decisions
The enhanced, overarching view provided by NETIS enables strategic purchasing decisions to be made, releasing funds through aggregation opportunities that can be invested in to new, and existing, technologies to improve patient pathways and deliver better outcomes.
Improves Management and Efficiency
Equipment fleets, including maintenance and service arrangements, can be managed more effectively by having detailed visibility of asset data, including ‘end-of life’ date.
Strengthens Resilience
A national view of assets, available in real time, ensures that appropriate, efficient action can be taken should a sudden surge in demand arise.
The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted how important it is to have the right product in the right place at the right time.
Instantly knowing equipment locations and capabilities not only strengthens day-to-day resilience, it improves NHS responsiveness to large-scale events.
Engagement and timelines
NHS Supply Chain is working in collaboration with the following stakeholders who are contributing valuable knowledge, data and insights to the project:
- Key government bodies
- Industry standard agencies
- NHS trusts
- Medical Equipment Management Software (MEMS) providers
- Equipment and Maintenance providers
April 2023 – March 2024
Deliver a Proof of Concept using existing data.
Complete
April 2024 – March 2026
Deliver a system that is accessible to all NHS employees, with a minimum of 80% of NHS trust asset data included.*
In Progress
April 2026 Onwards
Deliver complete national asset coverage and drive further system developments, with an initial focus on asset utilisation.
In Development
Asset data
NETIS will include frequently updated asset data, obtained from various sources, for the following category areas:
- Radiology, Oncology and Radiotherapy (fixed equipment)
- Diagnostic Equipment (including endoscopy and ultrasound)
- Medical Devices (for example patient monitors and ventilators)
For a full list of the areas covered, please contact the NETIS project team on the email provided below.
How you can support
The success of NETIS is underpinned by the quality and quantity of asset data within the system.
An essential route for obtaining the required asset data is directly from trusts, therefore we ask for your support in maximising the benefits that NETIS will provide for the NHS by sharing your data with us.
Contact
For further information please contact the NETIS project team at
NETIS
FAQs
NETIS will benefit trusts in several ways including:
> Enhanced and accelerated analytics to support with replenishment and management of medical equipment and maintenance contracts.
> Live, easily accessible and standardised medical equipment asset data that enables real-time and efficient decision making for all NHS users.
> Visibility of asset data on a national scale increases purchasing and aggregation opportunities that drive better value for the NHS.
> Comprehensive insight into maintenance contract data to support aggregation and benchmarking for maintenance agreements and portfolios.
> Informs longer term strategy, policy and funding decisions at a national level, enabling the introduction of enhanced technology that supports in driving improved patient outcomes.
NETIS is expected to be live and accessible to all NHS employees with a minimum of 80% of asset data available by March 2026*.
Support from trusts in providing their asset data is paramount in achieving the data coverage required to drive well-informed decision making.
*Asset volume has been calculated based on total NHS Supply Chain sales, taken from the period April 2024 to March 2025.
Yes. Access to NETIS will be controlled by the NETIS team to ensure access is only granted for appropriate data use purposes.
Yes, the success of the system relies on trusts providing us with their asset data. We seek to gain individual agreement from trusts to collect this non-sensitive data by way of a Data Sharing Agreement (DSA).
The way in which we collect data from trusts will vary but we aim to pursue the most efficient way (taking in to account each trust’s unique set of circumstances) to ensure that minimal work is required.
The system aims to consolidate asset data relating to all medical equipment that is in use within NHS acute hospitals. As a minimum it will include 60 key product groups, and these groups fall within the remit of:
> Radiotherapy, Radiology and Oncology (fixed equipment)
> Diagnostic Equipment (including endoscopy and ultrasound)
> Medical Devices (for example patient monitors and ventilators)
For a list of the 60 product areas covered please contact us. NETIS is a dynamic system so the product scope may expand once all the collated asset data, extracted from multiple channels (including direct from trusts), has been analysed.
We will continue to review and improve the data quality on new, and existing, assets to strengthen analysis and reporting.
Yes. This will be covered by our training material.
There is an appetite to expand the scope of assets, but the decision is dependent on the availability and accessibility of data.
We need to ensure that the asset data can be collected and maintained at a level that enables effective analysis on a national scale.
Yes. NETIS will continue to grow and develop further capabilities as the system and data matures. As we receive feedback from users.
We will reach out to users closer to the system launch date with training information.
Yes. All of the information available on this website page is published here, to support with wider discussions around NETIS.
For any specific questions or queries, please contact us.
No, the data is commercial sensitive and can be leveraged to generate market insights so cannot be shared with suppliers. To ensure that users comply, a user agreement will be developed and implemented.
Please contact us, ensuring that you reference the specific data that you have identified as incorrect, the reason why, and what the ideal remedy would be.
NETIS will utilise Microsoft single sign on to validate NHS users. Therefore, NHS users will be able to access the platform from any relevant NHS device, including mobile devices.
Please contact us via email.
