The Trust must be questioned as to why they did not consider the Mid Ulster Hospital for these beds, and should be made move toward utilizing trust owned buildings rather than tendering this to the private sector.
Also there is a pattern emerging here in business cases brought forward by the NHSCT, the contract with Brooklands was split over 2 parts, this means that the NHSCT did not have to approach the Department of Fiance for approval. As this contract was always going to last longer than 6 months serious questions have to be answered on why this was not tendered for the 12 month period and application to scrutiny.