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07/09/2004
£6m contract on NHS cancer care goes to private company
A private company has been awarded a £6 million contract to test how to provide best quality of care for cancer patients on the NHS.
Ovations Healthcare (UK) Limited, who have been awarded the contract, will work with each primary care trust pilot site to identify patients to be involved in the project.
Pilots will be run in nine areas of England through Primary Care Trusts – each with an average general population of 237,000 people – over a two-year period. The different locations offer a mixture of urban and rural, affluent and deprived areas to test the system's flexibility in coping with individual patient need.
The findings will enable the Department of Health to share with the rest of the NHS an integrated cancer care that can be adapted to local circumstances.
Cancer patients will be monitored to see how improved support – in terms of early diagnosis and better co-ordination between services – can help them navigate the health system more easily, reduce uncertainty, and improve their wellbeing. The principles of patient choice will be applied so that people can make positive decisions to suit their personal circumstances, the health department said.
Public Health Minister Melanie Johnson said: "Not only will this make a real difference to patients who are included in the pilot schemes but it will help us plan for the best cancer care throughout the country. We will find out what really helps patients during their illness and ensure that resources are spent in a way which benefits the patient as much as possible."
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Ovations Healthcare (UK) Limited, who have been awarded the contract, will work with each primary care trust pilot site to identify patients to be involved in the project.
Pilots will be run in nine areas of England through Primary Care Trusts – each with an average general population of 237,000 people – over a two-year period. The different locations offer a mixture of urban and rural, affluent and deprived areas to test the system's flexibility in coping with individual patient need.
The findings will enable the Department of Health to share with the rest of the NHS an integrated cancer care that can be adapted to local circumstances.
Cancer patients will be monitored to see how improved support – in terms of early diagnosis and better co-ordination between services – can help them navigate the health system more easily, reduce uncertainty, and improve their wellbeing. The principles of patient choice will be applied so that people can make positive decisions to suit their personal circumstances, the health department said.
Public Health Minister Melanie Johnson said: "Not only will this make a real difference to patients who are included in the pilot schemes but it will help us plan for the best cancer care throughout the country. We will find out what really helps patients during their illness and ensure that resources are spent in a way which benefits the patient as much as possible."
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