Guidance

Small and medium-sized enterprise action plan

How the Department of Health and Social Care will support its small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 7 December 2012
• Last updated: 15 July 2021 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Small and medium-sized enterprise action plan 2017 to 2022

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The plan sets out the activities that will take place to support SMEs during the department’s procurement processes. The action plan supports the government’s aspiration that 33% of procurement spend will go to SMEs by March 2022.

Published 7 December 2012
Last updated 15 July 2021 + show all updates

1. 15 July 2021

   Added latest SME action plan for 2017 to 2022 (replacing the action plan for 2017 to 2020).

2. 1 July 2019

   The document has been updated to include our 2017 and 2018 SME spend figures on page 6 in section 3. It also now includes targets set through to 2022 on the same page and section.

3. 26 October 2018

   The action plan has been replaced with a revised version for 2017 to 2020.

4. 8 January 2014

   The SME action plan has been updated to include DH progress on SME spend targets, DH process improvement achievements to date and revised future actions for the DH and the wider NHS.

5. 7 December 2012

   First published.