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Bupa Hospitals wins preferred provider status in NHS bid to offer more choice to patients in the North West 19 July 2006 Bupa Hospitals Ltd has been named as the ‘preferred provider’ for a Department of Health contract to provide a range of NHS services to people in Cheshire and Merseyside. Under the proposals Bupa will carry out around 6,000 procedures a year for NHS patients in the area including ear, nose and throat surgery, general surgery, gynaecology, neurosurgery, orthopaedics and plastic surgery. When the contract terms have been finalised it is proposed that a new Bupa treatment centre will be created at Ormskirk General Hospital. All other facilities will be provided by Bupa’s three hospitals in the North West, Bupa Murrayfield Hospital, Wirral, Bupa Manchester Hospital and Bupa North Cheshire Hospital in Warrington. In addition, Bupa will also be offering services through partner hospitals operated by Classic Hospitals in Macclesfield and Wrexham and BMI Healthcare in Crewe. 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. The contract will provide extra capacity and increase choice for patients living in the North West and services are expected to start from December 2006. 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 West to provide the best possible services for patients. “We are proud that Bupa’s Redwood Centre in Surrey 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.” This is the second time in recent weeks that Bupa Hospitals Ltd has been selected as preferred bidder. It has also been named 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. Bupa opened a prototype treatment centre, Redwood Diagnosis and Treatment Centre, in 2003. The centre will shortly treat its 40,000th patient for the NHS. 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. Bupa is a provident association, has no shareholders, and all surpluses are re-invested in the healthcare business.
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