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<p>University College London Hospital (UCLH) located in Queen’s Square does not provide
gamma knife services. However, an independent provider called Queen’s Square Radiotherapy
Centre Limited based at a site in Queen’s Square owned by ULCH does. Individual funding
requests are, therefore, submitted by Queen’s Square Radiotherapy Centre Limited.</p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England became responsible for commissioning radiotherapy
services on 1 April 2013 and has no record of University Hospital College London notifying
commissioners that it was a provider of this service.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Where
contractual arrangements exist between NHS England and the hospital providing treatment,
all patients will be treated in accordance with the prescribed clinical pathways and
in line with those contractual agreements. It is only where providers treat outside
the required contractual agreements that they do so at their own financial risk. However,
as NHS England commissions gamma knife services, and we understand there is no waiting
list, it is highly unlikely that the clinically urgent situation described in the
question would arise.</p><p> </p>
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