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Oxfordshire councillors criticise NHS England over outsourcing of cancer scanning services

BMJ 2019; 365 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l2400 (Published 03 June 2019) Cite this as: BMJ 2019;365:l2400
  1. Gareth Iacobucci
  1. The BMJ

A group of councillors from Oxfordshire have launched a stinging attack on NHS England over plans to outsource local cancer scanning services to a private company.

NHS England’s decision to award a contract to provide the combined positron emission tomography and computed tomography (PET-CT) scanning service to the company InHealth has led to a dispute with Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which has provided the …

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