Alliance Medical is a radiology services company founded in 1989 by

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operating across Europe. In 2010

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and

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acquired 85% of the company in a debt-for-equity swap. A consortium, called the Collaborative Network, between the company and Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust won a ten-year NHS contract to provide PET-CT scanning services across 30 locations in England in January 2015. The contract provides for investment of £87 million over 10 years to install new scanners and improve the current infrastructure. Twenty-four existing sites will remain where they are, and six new sites will be added at Maidstone Hospital;

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;

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;

Lincoln County Hospital Lincoln County Hospital is a large district general hospital on the eastern edge of north-east Lincoln, England. It is the largest hospital in Lincolnshire, and offers the most comprehensive services, in Lincolnshire. It is managed by the United ...

;

Southmead Hospital Southmead Hospital is a large public National Health Service hospital, situated in the area of Southmead, though in Horfield ward, in the northern suburbs of Bristol, England. It is part of the North Bristol NHS Trust. The 800-bed Brunel Buildi ...

;

Royal United Hospital The Royal United Hospital (RUH) is a major acute-care hospital in the Weston suburb of Bath, England, which lies approximately west of the city centre. The hospital has 565 beds and occupies a site. It is the area's major accident and emergenc ...

; and

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. The contract was awarded despite an NHS consortium bid being £7m cheaper. In 2013 the company acquired IBA Molecular UK and Erigal, two of the three companies in England that produce the radioactive drug

Fludeoxyglucose (18F) 8Fluorodeoxyglucose (International Nonproprietary Name, INN), or fluorodeoxyglucose F 18 (United States Adopted Name, USAN and United States Pharmacopeia, USP), also commonly called fluorodeoxyglucose and abbreviated 8FDG, 2- 8FDG or F ...

, which is injected into patients as part of the imaging process.

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is the only other UK producer. It was bought by

LIFE Healthcare Group Life Healthcare Group, formerly Afrox Healthcare, is the second largest private hospital operator in South Africa, with 6,500 beds. It is also the largest black-owned hospital operator in South Africa. Afrox was traded on the JSE Securities Exc ...

for about 10.4 billion rand (£584 million, €680 million, $727 million) in November 2016. It took over the running of the Taunton Diagnostic Centre, the first

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run by the independent sector in partnership with the NHS, in November 2022 after

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went into liquidation. It provides

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to form pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes of the body. MRI scanners use strong magnetic fields, magnetic field gradients, and radio wave ...

Computed Tomography A computed tomography scan (CT scan; formerly called computed axial tomography scan or CAT scan) is a medical imaging technique used to obtain detailed internal images of the body. The personnel that perform CT scans are called radiographers ...

Ultrasound Ultrasound is sound waves with frequency, frequencies higher than the upper audible limit of human hearing range, hearing. Ultrasound is not different from "normal" (audible) sound in its physical properties, except that humans cannot hea ...

and

X-Ray An X-ray, or, much less commonly, X-radiation, is a penetrating form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation. Most X-rays have a wavelength ranging from 10 picometers to 10 nanometers, corresponding to frequencies in the range 30&nb ...

facilities.

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