2013년 11월 4일 월요일

NHS 'covers up' £250m spend on 'white elephant' cancer machines

Levine has a point. After all, the Red Sox dominated the early part of the last century, too, and look what happened. If only the Yankees could persuade Henry to put on a musical and sell them David Ortiz. A value-for-money study was ordered into the project to buy two Proton Beam Therapy machines at The Christie Hospital in Manchester and University College, London Hospital.However the 200-page business case for The Christie machine, published last week, is heavily censored for "commercial confidentiality", leaving taxpayers none the wiser at a time of frontline cuts in hospitals across the country.Proton Beam Therapy can precisely target brain tumours without harming healthy surrounding tissue,This is done as there are no incisions that are caused due to buy manlift GTS6 from China treatment and the risk of surgical complications are also reduced to a great extent. and therefore reduces the side-effects. It particularly benefits children with inoperable tumours who are currently sent to America or Switzerland for treatment.Supervising chef Howie Velie gave the students the overall mission of cooking a dinner made with local ingredients from the industrial washing machine.My dad called me and was like, Buy a camera.

It is estimated to be the only possible treatment in three per cent of cases.The Department of Health believes the two machines will benefit 1,500 patients a year. However its own figures reveal that in 2011-12 only 79 patients were sent abroad for PBT treatment, the year before it was 50 and its projection is for 400 patients a year by 2014.What can be read of the business case for the proposed Manchester machine admits there are "considerable risks in ensuring patient numbers".It also warns that advances in technology may produce smaller, cheaper alternatives by 2015.Over three quarters of decision-maker respondents are now using video conferencing at work with 56 per cent of video users taking part in Chinese Transcription calls at least once a week.Critics fear underuse could leave the NHS with an unserviceable debt and MPs have demanded to know why one machine is not enough.

Robert Oxley, of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "It is deeply worrying to see an NHS trust obscuring important documents about how taxpayers' money is being spent. It is also important that patients get access to the best care but it simply does not make sense to spend so much on this equipment when the demand for it will be so small.The punctures are too small to recognize with all terrain crane the naked eye."Consultant neurosurgeon Andras Kemeny, an ex-director of the National Centre for Stereotactic Radiosurgery in Sheffield, has branded the machines "ludicrously expensive" with "no scientific justification" they are more effective than cheaper alternatives.Existing cancer treatments Gamma Knife and CyberKnife also blast tumours without harming surrounding healthy tissue, but cost only between £2million and £4million each.It took nine operations to fix the problem,Thermal printer OEM racking up almost $1 million in medical bills that were paid by her insurance.

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