ISTCs
Health
Written answers and statements, 13 June 2006
Steve Webb (Shadow Secretary of State for Health, Health; Northavon, Liberal Democrat)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the (a) name and (b) location is of (i) each of the independent sector treatment centres (ISTCs) which were established at part of the first wave of the ISTC programme and (ii) each ISTC which is planned in the second wave; and if she will make a statement on the progress of the programme.
Ivan Lewis (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Health; Bury South, Labour)
The names and addresses of the fully operational wave one independent sector treatment centres (ISTCs) are shown in the table.
| Independent sector treatment centre | Address |
| GC4 spine chain | |
| East Cornwall, Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre | Bodmin, Cornwall, PL31 2QT |
| East Lincolnshire, Boston NHS Treatment Centre | Boston West Business Park, Sleaford Road, Boston, PE21 8EG |
| West Lincolnshire, Gainsborough NHS Treatment Centre | Ropery Road, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, DN21 2TJ |
| North and East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, Clifton NHS Treatment Centre | Bluebeck Drive, Shipton Road, York, YO30 5RA |
| Northumberland Tyne and Wear, Cobalt NHS Treatment Centre | The Silverlink North, Cobalt Business Park, North Tyneside NE27 0BY |
| Southampton, Capio New Hall Hospital NHS Treatment Centre | Bodenham, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP5 4EY |
| Thames Valley, Woodland Hospital NHS Treatment Centre (interim site) | Rothwell Road, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN16 8XF |
| Thames Valley, Reading NHS Treatment Centre | Swallows Croft, Reading, RG1 6UZ, |
| GC5 west chain | |
| Kidderminster, Kidderminster Treatment Centre | Bewdley Road, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, DY11 6RJ |
| GC8 chain | |
| Portsmouth, St. Mary's NHS Treatment Centre | Milton Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire, P03 GAD |
| Medway, Will Adams NHS Treatment Centre | Beechings Way, Gillingham, Kent ME8 GAD |
| Wycombe, Mid and South Buckinghamshire NHS Diagnostic Centre (diagnostic services only) | Unit 2, The Merlin Centre, Cressex Business Park, High Wycombe HP12 3QL |
| Local projects | |
| Bradford, Eccleshill NHS Treatment Centre | 45 Harrogate Road. Eccleshill Bradford BD10 0JE |
| Trent, Barlborough NHS Treatment Centre | 2 Lindrick Way, Barlborough, Chesterfield, S45 4XE |
| Shepton Mallet, Shepton Mallet NHS Treatment Centre | St. Peters Road, Shepton, BA4 4PG |
| Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Surgical Centre | Bowers Avenue, Davyhulme, Manchester, M41 SSL |
| Plymouth, Peninsula NHS Treatment Centre | Building 3, Derriford Business Park, Plymouth, PL6 5QZ |
| OC123 ophthalmology chain | |
| Mobile Cataract Unit | n/a |
Phase two of the ISTC procurement is in progress. Invitations to negotiate (ITNs) have been issued for 12 schemes for electives procedures in the following areas:
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear;
Cumbria and Lancashire (two schemes);
Cheshire and Merseyside;
Essex;
West Midland South;
Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire;
Greater Manchester (two schemes);
Hampshire and Isle of Wight; and
Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.
We expect a further tranche of ITNs to be issued in the summer.
Negotiations are also under way with bidders on seven regional diagnostics schemes. These are in the following areas:
London;
the North East;
the West Midlands;
the North West;
the South East;
the South West; and
the East.
By the end of 2005, patients had benefited from over 250,000 procedures centrally procured from the independent sector including those from ISTCs, the general supplementary contract and the magnetic resonance imaging contract. ISTCs are now firmly part of the national health service family, delivering NHS services to NHS patients. Phase two of the programme is currently underway which will further increase NHS capacity, reduce waits for treatment and diagnostic tests, and increase patient choice.