Preferred Bidder Award for North East Diagnostics Service

Alliance Medical, in partnership with Care UK, has been awarded preferred bidder status to provide diagnostic services across the North East of England.

The service will be delivered under a joint brand name of AMC Diagnostics Limited.

The contract covers an area from North Lincolnshire in the south to the Scottish border in the north, the Pennines in the west and the coast in the east.

The service offering includes CT scans, MRI scans, DXA (bone densitometry), electrocardiograms, ultrasound/echo and X-ray, upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy, electroencephalography, electromyography/nerve conduction studies, flexible cystoscopy.

AMC Diagnostics is working with participating PCTs to determine which of the services are required to meet their particular local health needs.

Services will be delivered from a combination of spare capacity in existing NHS community hospital facilities, modular builds on existing NHS land and via mobile units.