£1billion of NHS diagnostic business up for grabs
 The Financial Times has reported that nine companies have been shortlisted to tender for NHS diagnostic services' contracts worth up to £1billion over five years.
The letting of the contracts is seen by the government to be critical in meeting the 18-week diagnostic target by end 2008. The FT says that the shortlisted companies are Nuffield Hospitals, Amicus/Inhealth, Atos Origin, Bupa, Care UK working with Alliance Medical, Clinicenta, a partnership between the Australian-owned Lodestone and Carillion, Mercury, MIS Inhealth, and the US-backed Nations Imaging. It is likely that the reporting of some images will be undertaken abroad, as happens now with the Alliance Medical MRI contract.
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