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Dept of Health

Answer

Mrs. Dunwoody: To ask the Secretary of State for Health where diagnostic and treatment centres (DTCs) will be located; what the status will be of NHS consultants employed on a sessional basis by DTCs; what formal arrangements will be concluded for after- care; and what the budget for DTCs will be. [119486] Mr. Hutton: A list of the locations of the 46 national health service-run diagnosis and treatment centres (DTCs) open or in development is shown in the table. The location of the independent DTC chain units, for which a procurement process is currently underway, will depend on the response of the independent sector to the clinical requirements of the NHS and the value for money for NHS commissioners offered by the different solutions. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Strategic health authority DTC scheme Avon, Gloucs and Wilts Swindon Weston Birmingham and the Black Country Birmingham City Hospital Dudley Good Hope Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham Cheshire and Merseyside Aintree Clatterbridge Crewe Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Southport and Ormskirk County Durham and Tees Valley Bishop Auckland Essex Princess Alexandra Greater Manchester Withington Wrightington Hampshire and Isle of Wight Chase, Bordon North Hampshire, Basingstoke Royal Haslar Hospital Southampton and Winchester Kent and Medway Dartford Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland Kettering General London Ravenscourt Park North and East Yorkshire and Lincs Goole North Central London Moorfields UCLH Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridge Bury St. Edmunds Hinchingbrooke North West London Chelsea and Westminster South East London Bromley Hospitals Kings College Hospital Shropshire and Staffordshire Cannock South West Peninsula Royal Cornwall (Truro) Torbay Surrey and Sussex Chichester Frimley Park South West London Newham Acute Newham PCT SW London Orthopaedic Thames Valley Milton Keynes Nuffield Orthopaedic Royal Berkshire and Battle Trent Erewash West Midlands South Kidderminster West Yorkshire Pontefract _________________________________________________________________________________________________. The status of NHS consultants employed on a sessional basis by NHS DTCs will depend on local circumstances. Where consultants work in an NHS DTC as part of their contract with an NHS trust, their current terms and conditions of service will apply. But alternative arrangements can be agreed locally. Independent sector DTC providers will take clinical and managerial responsibility for any work carried out by NHS staff in their units. For both NHS and independent sector DTCs, arrangements for aftercare will be agreed locally between NHS commissioners and the providers concerned. £350 million capital has been invested in NHS DTCs. The cost of services delivered by NHS DTCs is for local agreement between the NHS provider and local NHS commissioners. The cost of services delivered through independent sector DTCs will be determined as part of the current procurement exercise.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

119486; 407 c569-70W;407 c572-3W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Conditions of employment Consultants Diagnosis Medical treatments Location Treatment centres

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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