Company signs three year deal with NHS Foundation Trust for EMG/NCS services

Around 560 patients of Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will receive EMG/NCS services over the next three years from Bespoke Healthcare as part of a new deal.

The arrangement will see the company provide on-site services starting in February, undertaking clinics at weekends plus at least one week day per month.

It will by managed Dr Steven Coates, the Consultant Neurophysiologist at the Great Western Hospital, Swindon.  Dictations will be managed by Bespoke Healthcare remotely from their Preston HQ, and securely passed back to the Trust electronically.

The contract has been awarded following a formal tender process and follows an informal trial period in May 2010, when the company was used as a temporary provider.

David Moss, Deputy General Manager, Diagnostics and Outpatients at Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: “Bespoke Healthcare turn around the diagnostics very quickly and are popular with clinicians and patients. The service they offer is efficient, flexible and customer focused.”

Bespoke Healthcare is widely acknowledged as the leading independent provider of neurophysiology testing services for public and private hospitals throughout the United Kingdom.

Gwam Rajiah, managing director, said: “We are very pleased to sign this new contract with Great Western.  As a company, we are expanding and in 2010 saw approximately 25% more patients than in the previous year.

“We are winning business based on providing the best services for patients and healthcare providers at a reasonable price and, against the backdrop of a changing NHS, we are continuing to develop our portfolio of services.”

Other recent contract wins for Bespoke Healthcare includes The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust.