NEW privately-run treatment centres are to be built in the region to treat NHS patients.
The centres, run by Capio Healthcare UK, will be located at Newcastle and York and complement work in NHS hospitals.
In total, eight Capio centres will be built in England, allowing 19,000 operations to be performed from next March. An estimated 10,000 of these operations will be over and above those currently carried out in the NHS.
Jeremy Clough, Selby and York Primary Care Trust chief executive said: "The extra capacity will help us to make further progress in reducing the time patients wait for hospital treatment and enable us to offer patients greater choice in where they receive their surgery."
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