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Dept of Health

Answer

John Cryer: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) which private healthcare companies expressed an interest in running the treatment centre at King George's Hospital, Redbridge; and what the criteria were used to award the contract; [133273] (2) if he will estimate how many patients will be treated at the treatment centre based at King George's Hospital, Redbridge; and if he will make a statement. [133274] Mr. Hutton: Anglo Canadian was announced as preferred bidder for the proposed treatment centre at King George's Hospital, Redbridge on 12 September. Their appointment is subject to final contract negotiation and agreement. Because of the commercial in confidence status of the procurement, it is not possible to list the other companies that expressed an interest in this scheme. The selection of the preferred bidders followed detailed evaluation of the submitted tenders. The evaluation criteria included clinical quality, building proposals, human resources, speed of mobilisation and delivery, affordability, value for money, bidders corporate structure and price. There was a structured scoring mechanism against each of these criteria and total scores assessed between bidders. It is expected that the treatment centre based at King George's Hospital will complete 11,800 procedures on average per year of the contract in ophthalmology, general surgery and trauma and orthopaedics. These are indicative activity levels and are subject to the possibility that it may make sense for the national health service and the preferred bidder to shift activity between different centres.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

413 c1118W; 133273;133274

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Contracts Injuries Patients Ophthalmology Redbridge Standards Surgery Treatment centres Orthopaedics King George Hospital

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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