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A CONTRACT to diagnose illnesses in thousands of patients has been handed to a private firm even though the NHS offered to do the work for seven million pounds cheaper.
The scans for cancer and other conditions are performed on a state-of-the-art machine at the Royal Stoke University Hospital partly paid for by public donations.
But it is to be operated by staff from Alliance Medical which has been given the scanning service in Staffordshire, Cheshire, Shropshire and Lancashire by the Government.
A competing NHS bid led by Royal Stoke’s trust was turned down by NHS England which had put the work out to tender.
http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/Stok...-won-private/story-25444112-detail/story.html
The scans for cancer and other conditions are performed on a state-of-the-art machine at the Royal Stoke University Hospital partly paid for by public donations.
But it is to be operated by staff from Alliance Medical which has been given the scanning service in Staffordshire, Cheshire, Shropshire and Lancashire by the Government.
A competing NHS bid led by Royal Stoke’s trust was turned down by NHS England which had put the work out to tender.
http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/Stok...-won-private/story-25444112-detail/story.html