What does NWS do?
NWS provides NHS procedures and treatments in private hospitals at no cost to the patient.
Patients are referred by the NHS to NWS. Operations are carried out in independent medical facilities (private hospitals) by fully accredited NHS consultants. The cost of the care to the patient is fully funded by the NHS.
NWS is also able to treat patients with private medical insurance. If you are a patient with private medical insurance and wish to be treated by one of the team working with NWS, please contact us.
Why was NWS established?
Under the Patient Choice Agenda and Choose and Book patients now have the choice of where and when they wish to receive elective surgery and other NHS services. One of the choices that patients can make is whether to have their treatment within the independent sector, at a private hospital.
Since January 2005 patients requiring cataract surgery have been offered a choice of two providers. This enables faster treatment and also allows the patient to make a choice regarding where the procedure is carried out. Since December 2005 all patients in England have been offered four choices for many other elective care procedures, one of which may be an independent provider (private). By 2008 all patients will have free choice.
Working alongside GPs and the Primary Care Trusts, NWS was set up to provide the independent option and deliver real choice to patients.
Our Expertise
Our experience, expertise and proven history in providing elective care for patients who exercise choice places us to offer a wide variety of services. We aim to provide real choice to as many patients as possible, and to supply NHS purchasers with a reliable, high quality, affordable alternative within the independent sector in support of the Patient Choice Agenda.
The Company
Four directors lead the company:
Mario Calleja MBChB, MRCA, FFARCSI
Consultant Anaesthetist and Intensivist
Dr Calleja qualified in Liverpool in 1983 and trained in anaesthesia, general medicine and intensive care in Liverpool
and Manchester. Was appointed to his present consultant post in Lancashire in 1994 where he helped establish a new
department of anaesthesia and also set up a new intensive care unit.
Dr Calleja's present practice includes critical care medicine and anaesthesia for orthopaedic and urological surgery.
He has held the post of associate medical director since 2003 with a responsibility for medical workforce issues.
Mr Ahsanul Haq FRCS, FRCS (Urol)
Consultant Urologist
Obtained a degree in physiology at the University of Manchester and studied Medicine at St John's College,
Cambridge graduating in 1992. Basic Surgical Training was at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield gaining
FRCS (Eng) in 1996. He joined the East Anglian Higher Surgical Training Scheme in Urology in 1998 and gained FRCS
(Urol) in 2002.
Mr Haq has worked in Cambridge, Norwich, Ipswich, Peterborough and Bedford. He specialised in Female Urology and Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction, and did a Fellowship at the internationally renowned Institute of Urology at Middlesex Hospital, London. He has a specialist interest in the diagnosis and management of Urinary Incontinence and Andrology.
Mr Aslam Mohammed FRCS, FRCS (Orth)
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Qualified in Cardiff in 1984, and has held a consultant post in Lancashire since in 1995. As Clinical Director Mr
Mohammed set up and established the department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery in Chorley and South Ribble.
Mr Mohammed undertook his specialist training in Orthopaedic and Trauma surgery in Stoke on Trent and at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry; one the leading specialist orthopaedic hospitals in the UK.
Mr Mohammed has been awarded the G K Rose Prize for Biomechanics and the Professor's Medal for his research into bone cell culture techniques related to fracture healing. He specialises in arthritic problems around the hip, knee and ankle joints, particularly in young adults, as well as sports-related soft tissue injuries and problems. He is one of a few surgeons in the UK who is able to offer key-hole surgery of the hip joint (Arthroscopy) for which he receives nationwide and overseas referrals.
Mr Jeremy Ward MB ChB, MD, FRCS Ed (Gen Surg)
Consultant General and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon
Mr Ward qualified in Edinburgh and trained in General Surgery in Liverpool. He has been a consultant in Lancashire
since 2002. His main interests include upper gastrointestinal and biliary surgery, including laparoscopic surgery.
Mr Ward is the clinical lead for upper gastrointestinal cancer and is a college tutor.