Creaking NHS in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes region feels the strain of proposed new local diagnostic hubs
Updated Friday, 7th May 2021, 10:12 am NHS and local council leaders from across Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK) were told that chiefs in Whitehall are pressing for the creation of local diagnostic hubs in addition to hospital services but this is a “massive ask”. Bedford hospital’s Dr James Ramsay, the clinical cancer lead at BLMK, is also leading work on creating the new hubs. He told the BLMK partnership board on Wednesday that demand for diagnostic services in cancer, stroke and heart disease already “outstrips demand”. Generic health picture And he referred to “...