PAHT - Mobile MRI Service

About the buyer

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust runs acute and community health services from Harlow, and buys as an NHS trust within the healthcare sector. West Essex Health and Care Partnership includes the Trust alongside local commissioners and neighbouring providers. Contract opportunities above the national thresholds are advertised on Find a Tender under the Procurement Act 2023. The Princess Alexandra Hospital is being rebuilt in full under the government's New Hospital Programme. Ministers approved funding for the rebuild in 2023. Construction on the new hospital is due to start in 2032.

UK health spending has nearly quadrupled to £241.8bn in 2024/25, £20bn up on the year before. £140.6bn of that went to procurement, the biggest sector of UK public spending and the fastest-growing.

Over the past 5 years, most of The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust's contract awards have been in construction work, software and information systems and IT services.