Alliance Medical Wins Major NHS Contract for MRI Scanning Waiting Lists.LONDON -- The largest private provider of medical imaging services in Europe, Alliance Medical, has been awarded a 5 year contract by the NHS NHS abbr. National Health Service NHS (in Britain) National Health Service to tackle England's MRI 1. (application) MRI - Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2. MRI - Measurement Requirements and Interface. scanning waiting lists. Alliance Medical, will carry out 110,900 examinations in the first year, and 131,200 examinations a year in the remaining four years. A total of 635,000 scans will be undertaken during the lifetime of the contract. The service will begin before the end of July with the programme fully operational by the end of 2004. The contract represents a 16% increase in scanning capacity in England and will make a significant contribution to non-emergency MRI scanning. In all, 12 mobile MRI units will be made available to all 28 strategic health authorities. The company will work with them to plan the service in each area. Alliance Medical will call patients on waiting lists and book them for appointments at mobile scanners stationed at hospitals near them. The service will initially run for six days each week increasing to run seven days a week, and twelve hours a day from November 2004. All clinical staff will be additional to the NHS, ensuring that precious NHS resources are not depleted de·plete tr.v. de·plet·ed, de·plet·ing, de·pletes To decrease the fullness of; use up or empty out. [Latin d . Dr Andy Dun, Medical Director for Alliance Medical said: "Leading edge mobile MRI technology combined with highly trained clinical staff ensures that Alliance Medical can provide the NHS with an outstanding service for patients. Since our inception 15 years ago, Alliance has worked in close partnership with dozens of NHS hospitals, providing them with a high quality and cost effective mobile MRI service. This contract builds on this relationship and expands the range of services to include Patient booking and Radiology Reporting". NOTES TO EDITORS --Locations for scanners will be arranged by Strategic Health Authority Cluster: London - 2 units, 18,477 Procedures in Year 1 (Full Year: 21,866) North East, Yorkshire and Humber - 2 units, 18,477 Procedures in Y1 (Full Year: 21,866) North West and West Midlands West Midlands, former metropolitan county, central England. Created in the 1974 local government reorganization, the county embraced the Birmingham conurbation and comprised seven metropolitan districts: Walsall, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Sandwell, Birmingham, Solihull, - 3 units, 27,715 procedures in Y1 (Full Year: 32,799) East Midlands The East Midlands is one of the regions of England and consists of most of the eastern half of the traditional region of the Midlands. It consists of the combined area of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and most of Lincolnshire. and East - 2 units, 18,477 Procedures in Y1 (Full Year: 21,866) Southern - 3 units, 27,715 procedures in Y1 (Full Year: 32,799) --Alliance Medical is the leading provider of outsourced radiology imaging services in Europe, often working in partnership with national governments and independent health providers to deliver a range of managed radiology services through mobile or fixed site solutions across almost all countries in Europe. --Within its main markets of the UK, Italy and Spain, Alliance Medical operates nearly 75 MRI units, of which nearly 50 are mobile. In addition it operates around 25 further mobiles, including CT, PET, PET/CT PET/CT Positron Emission Tomography and Computed Tomography ; Mammography mammography, diagnostic procedure that uses low-dose X rays to detect abnormalities in the breasts. 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In addition, it runs fixed and mobile CT and PET facilities, and has developed the UK's most advanced independent Diagnostic Imaging Centre in London with PET/CT, MRI and CT in one location. Alliance Medical is also the exclusive provider of Radiology Services to CUAH (Care UK Afrox Healthcare) for their ISTC ISTC International Science and Technology Center ISTC International Student Travel Confederation ISTC Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators (UK) ISTC Independent Sector Treatment Centre (UK) sites in Trent, Plymouth and Maidstone. --Further information can be found on Alliance Medical's web-site: www.alliancemedical.eu.com This press release issued by AR Communications Ltd on behalf of Alliance Medical Ltd. |
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