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the NHS trust plans to extend the scheme on a much wider scale.

This is not only relevant for cancer care. The NHS trust is doing something similar with the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, the largest neurology hospital in Britain, to which patients are referred from around the UK.

One patient stayed at the Radisson Edwardian Grafton hotel for 25 days, at a cost of approximately ￡4,000. The hospital in-patient bill for the same period would have been about ￡14,000.

The drive for cost savings would force the NHS to move towards greater use of hotels. The money paid towards bed occupancy could go into paying for these expensive new cancer drugs. This will also be applied to cardiac care and diabetes.

UCH is planning to build a new specialist daycare cancer centre. Once it is open, hundreds of patients will need to be accommodated in local hotels. The trust will either negotiate deals with other chains or build its own hoel.
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