Block booking of all staffed mobile and relocatable scanning units with CT scanners in England in Annex 1 (the Mobiles) for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week per Mobile, in response to Covid-19

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Block booking of all staffed mobile and relocatable scanning units with CT scanners inEngland in Annex 1 (the "Mobiles") for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week per Mobile forthe Term, to carry out unreported non-contrast chest CT (and other types of CT scanswhere possible) supporting the national Covid 19 response. There are 38 mobile CT scanning units available for deployment in England. Theseunits will be essential to support the diagnosis of pneumonia in patients who areunwell with possible COVID-19 and also to support ongoing urgent cancer diagnosisand treatment and other urgent elective work which will be ongoing during theperiod.In particular, the establishment of field hospitals in a number of regions along the linesof the Nightingale Unit in London means that access to mobile CT units is essential.

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Block booking of all staffed mobile and relocatable scanning units with CT scanners inEngland in Annex 1 (the "Mobiles") for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week per Mobile forthe Term, to carry out unreported non-contrast chest CT (and other types of CT scanswhere possible) supporting the national Covid 19 response. There are 38 mobile CT scanning units available for deployment in England. Theseunits will be essential to support the diagnosis of pneumonia in patients who areunwell with possible COVID-19 and also to support ongoing urgent cancer diagnosisand treatment and other urgent elective work which will be ongoing during theperiod.In particular, the establishment of field hospitals in a number of regions along the linesof the Nightingale Unit in London means that access to mobile CT units is essential.