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provide Leeds with additional opportunities. Another example of success on the international


stage for Leeds Teaching Hospitals comes from a series of commercial deals it has won with Malta. In 2004 Malta joined the European Union, triggering an investment programme in the country’s infrastructure, including healthcare. Part of that investment has seen the building of a new oncology hospital for the island to replace older facilities, which is due to open in 2015.


Training programmes In April 2013 the Government of Malta placed an invitation to tender in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), seeking bids from organisations to train their student medical physicists who are vital to the success of the new oncology hospital. The Leeds Cancer Centre has 12 linear


accelerators (LINACS) - the highest concentration of these complex and expensive machines in Europe - and LTHT has built a highly experienced team of medical physicists, radiotherapists and scientists to support these facilities. A successful bid was submitted, and in July 2013 six medical physicists from Malta commenced a 22-month training programme at LTHT. This initial contract enabled LTHT to develop a


relationship with a number of key personnel in Malta, In February 2014, David Berridge, Medical Director (Operations) led a small team to Malta to meet senior health and government officials. The purpose of the visit was to promote the


capability of Leeds Teaching Hospitals, and our ambition to provide any further training and other services. Not only did it strengthen our position for the next training contract, we were also able to identify a number of other needs that Malta had for which we may be able to provide solutions. In May 2014, an OJEU tender was issued for the


training of a second tranche of medical physicist students. LTHT successfully won the contract, which is now in place, and a further nine students commenced a 22-month programme at LTHT in July 2014. This means that for a 12-month period, LTHT is hosting 15 medical physicist’s from Malta. The professional links that have developed between Malta and Leeds will exist long after the training programme have come to an end, and augurs well for future potential collaboration.


LTHT shares its experience and integrated team approach with overseas hospitals


During our visit in February we discussed a further


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challenge being faced by our colleagues in Malta. The new oncology hospital will contain three LINACS - two new ones were on order and the third needed to be transferred from an existing facility. Our advice to them was that the commissioning process needed a detailed piece of work to ensure that this would be fully integrated with other systems, to ensure the best level of patient care. Key personnel from Malta visited Leeds Cancer


Centre to view first-hand the integrated and multi- disciplinary team approach that we have pioneered. As a result, LTHT was invited to submit a proposal to commission the three LINACS. Over subsequent months we undertook detailed


operational, financial and commercial due diligence, culminating in a contract being signed between


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