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Bupa Hospitals selected as "preferred provider" to deliver a range of healthcare services to North East patients 6 June 2006 Bupa Hospitals Ltd has been selected as the "preferred provider" for a Department of Health contract to provide a range of NHS services to people in the North East of England. Under the contract Bupa Hospitals will carry out over 5,000 procedures a year including ear, nose and throat surgery, general surgery, gynaecology, neurosurgery, orthopaedics and plastic surgery. It will include providing Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs) for NHS patients, north and south of the River Tyne. When the contract terms have been finalised it is proposed that Bupa will build a new ISTC at North Tyneside General Hospital in North Shields, expand its existing hospital at Washington, and operate a new service in partnership with the Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust. The contract will provide extra capacity and increase choice for patients living in the North East. Services are expected to start from early in 2007. Bupa opened a prototype treatment centre, Redwood Diagnosis and Treatment Centre, in 2003. The centre will this year treat its 40,000th patient for the NHS in Surrey. In a recent survey 88 percent of patients rated their care as either "excellent" or "very good", with 72 percent of consultants rating the centre "excellent" or "very good". Bupa Redwood has helped the local NHS to reduce waiting lists by over a third. Clare Hollingsworth, managing director of Bupa Hospitals Ltd, said: "We are delighted to have the opportunity to work in partnership with the NHS in the North East to provide the best possible services for patients. "We are proud that Bupa’s Redwood Centre pioneered the treatment centre concept and demonstrated our ability to deliver high quality, cost-effective care for patients by working in close co-operation with the local NHS bodies and their staff. "We are equally proud to be leading the way in the government’s latest procurement of NHS treatment capacity from the independent sector." Preferred provider status means that Bupa Hospitals Ltd and the Department of Health will now move to final negotiations, with agreement by the end of the year. Bupa is a provident association, has no shareholders, and all surpluses are re-invested in the healthcare business.
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