New Zealand's Ministry of Health has officially awarded a contract to build the much-delayed National Screening Solution (NSS) to Deloitte, the consulting firm having already designed the blueprint for the system.

The NSS, which will support the $78 million National Bowel Screening Programme (NBSP) and eventually the national cervical cancer screening program, will be built using Salesforce technology in conjunction with Deloitte’s Health Connect accelerator, the ministry announced yesterday.