Tomography: Oxford

(asked on 25th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will place in the Library any impact assessment conducted on the proposed privatisation of the PET-CT scan service in Oxford.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 29th March 2019

In line with NHS England’s usual processes, an Equalities Impact Assessment will be undertaken where it is certain that there could be substantive changes to service provision. In relation to the outcome of the Lot 4 procurement, this would be triggered in the event there was no alternative proposal but to move the service from the Churchill Hospital site to another location in Oxford.

NHS England has not yet conducted the Equalities Impact Assessment because all parties, including Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, are committed to ensuring that PET-CT services are retained on the Churchill site, as part of a wider network of provision and partnership arrangement between both the Trust and InHealth. NHS England is due to present a report to Oxfordshire’s joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee on 4 April 2019, setting out the proposals and next steps.

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