Health Service Journal
Competition and co-operation
Stories with this category.
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OFT may block basket case trust moves
16-Jan-2013
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OFT moves to extend its jurisdiction over NHS mergers
9-Jan-2013
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Competition Commission to review first FT merger
8-Jan-2013
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NHS Cornwall may have acted anti-competitively
18-Dec-2012
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Merseyside GP takeover undergoing OFT and CCP scrutiny
14-Dec-2012
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Licensing regime could tilt playing field against NHS providers, Confed warns
13-Dec-2012
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How treatment centres have driven competition
21-Nov-2012
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Trusts lose ground in online marketing race
15 November 2012
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Commissioner behaviour is main barrier to independent sector providers
8-Nov-2012
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Exclusive: CCG leaders favour integration over competition
8-Nov-2012
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Provider sparks probe into placement claim
31-Oct-2012
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University Hospital of South Manchester one of 12 awarded podiatry contract
29-Oct-2012
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Providers awarded contracts for Greater Manchester hearing services
29-Oct-2012
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A perverse take on incentives
24-Oct-2012
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OFT begins scrutiny of merger plans
24-Oct-2012
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Competition watchdog clears merger of Kent trusts
19-Oct-2012
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Competition: waiting for that green light
18 October 2012
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How competition can help community services
18 October 2012
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Is choice a blight or a boon for patient care?
18 October 2012
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Nicholson fears 'carpet bombing' privatisation
16-Oct-2012
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Making integration happen
11 October 2012
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Health minister claims MPs becoming more 'responsible' about reconfiguration
8-Oct-2012
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Community trusts in FT delay
20 September 2012
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North Cumbria takeover deadline pushed back to 2013-14
11-Sep-2012
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Tenders for sexual health contracts could leave HIV services 'unviable'
7-Sep-2012
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Lessons from the world of payments
23 August 2012
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Brighton and Sussex makes compliance pledge to OFT
22-Aug-2012
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OFT pledge made by Frimley Park FT
22-Aug-2012
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Collaboration not competition CSUs' 'priority'
22-Aug-2012
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Competition pledge from East Sussex Healthcare
22-Aug-2012
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Dartford & Gravesham to cease “anti competitive” data sharing
22-Aug-2012
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Private providers in NHS 'likely' to escape toughest regulatory controls
20-Aug-2012
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OFT investigates NHS hospitals sharing price data
16-Aug-2012
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DH unveils licensing and competition plans
16-Aug-2012
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A collaborative operation
9 August 2012
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How to make it to merger
9 August 2012
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Pension funds to bankroll £298m hospital in finance first
8-Aug-2012
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Kent acutes given more time to provide merger evidence
6-Aug-2012
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Questions over Monitor’s role will be raised
1-Aug-2012
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'NHS must grasp a world of opportunity'
26-Jul-2012
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The argument over NHS competition isn't settled yet
26 July 2012
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DH to consult on extent of regulator's powers
25-Jul-2012
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Trust chiefs fear regulators would not spot scandal
25-Jul-2012
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Exclusive: CCP research suggests competition improves hospital services
19-Jul-2012
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'Poor patient experience is a clinical time bomb'
19-Jul-2012
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Bidders compete to take over contract of 'first' ever NHS social enterprise
16-Jul-2012
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Competition panel to probe referral management
11-Jul-2012
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NHS Propco could 'destabilise' local health economies, social enterprises warn
9-Jul-2012
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Mutuals should be 'mainstream' service option
25-Jun-2012
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Sharing responsibility may be uncomfortable work for medics
22-Jun-2012
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The brave new world of managed failure
21-Jun-2012
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Hospital trust asks DH to back franchise proposals
20-Jun-2012
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HSJ and NHS Confederation supplement
19-Jun-2012
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FTs warn of 'regulatory driven failure' under NHS reforms
19-Jun-2012
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Watchdog backs merger of Ealing and North West London hospitals
14-Jun-2012
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How to successfully lead from within a partnership
14 June 2012
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Exclusive: Monitor to launch major review of barriers to NHS competition
13-Jun-2012
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Legal right to choice would give providers 'confidence', says Cabinet Office
13-Jun-2012
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Conflict of interest concerns in new Monitor role - report
13-Jun-2012
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Ali Parsa: on Britain's sporting chance
31-May-2012
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Noel Plumridge: levelling the provider playing field
31-May-2012
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Social enterprises face losing core contracts
30-May-2012
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'It is within leaders' power to make things better'
24-May-2012
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DH unveils plans for increased competition in diagnostics and mental health
24-May-2012
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We should expect more questions than answers from good leaders
23-May-2012
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Royal Cornwall pursues AQP opportunity
8-May-2012
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Franchise deal could deter NHS bidder from hospital partnership
2-May-2012
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Nigel Edwards: how Lansley's big vision got shredded
26-Apr-2012
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NHS data skewed by efforts to protect trust finances
23-Apr-2012
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South West Ambulance FT seeks opportunities in Hampshire
19-Apr-2012
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Blocking dialysis contract could risk EU law challenge, trust warns DH
19-Apr-2012
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CCP to investigate ambulance merger
19-Apr-2012
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Exclusive: OFT to rule on foundation trust merger
16-Apr-2012
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Paul Corrigan: the integration conundrum
12 April 2012
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Private healthcare market referred to Competition Commission
5-Apr-2012
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Market competition test proposed for trusts seeking extra funding
4-Apr-2012
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Competition panel to advise on CCG conflict of interest regulation
2-Apr-2012
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Probe into Nottingham University Hospitals dialysis deal
2-Apr-2012
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Acute sector faces wave of mergers and reconfigurations
29-Mar-2012
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Guidance on producing an any qualified provider implementation pack
29 March 2012
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NHS and pharmaceutical partnerships being deterred by 'misconceptions'
29 March 2012
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The relationship between pharma and the NHS is challenging, not cosy
29 March 2012
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Torbay looks to collaborate with acute trust
23-Mar-2012
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York FT must change gatekeeping role, says competition panel
22-Mar-2012
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Ministers seek 'further advice' on conflict of interest in commissioning
22-Mar-2012
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The legal implications of EU procurement law for the NHS
22-Mar-2012
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How EU procurement directives could impact health service commissioning
22 March 2012
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£1.1bn Barts merger gets Lansley sign-off
16-Mar-2012
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Michael White: bill-bashing Lib Dems may take their own hits in the polls
15-Mar-2012
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Health reforms clear latest Lords hurdle
14-Mar-2012
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Rebel Lib Dem reforms revolt defeated
14-Mar-2012
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Trust mergers don't guarantee more for less
14-Mar-2012
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AQP staff to receive NHS pension under Treasury proposal
9-Mar-2012
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Two weeks to 'save the NHS', warns union
8-Mar-2012
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Preferred bidder could start running North Cumbria before takeover cleared
5-Mar-2012
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Exclusive: public split over use of private firms in NHS as Labour doubles poll lead on health
5-Mar-2012
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Collaboration with the private sector: a necessary evil?
4-Mar-2012
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'Patient choice should not force commissioners away from competition'
1-Mar-2012
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Noel Plumridge: forget hospitals, competition will thrive in non-acute services
1-Mar-2012
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Private heart clinic refers FT to competition panel
1-Mar-2012
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Lords win tweaks to Health Bill on competition
28-Feb-2012
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Government told NHS needs competition
28-Feb-2012
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Competition panel approves two hospital mergers and will look at two more
22-Feb-2012
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Why reconfiguration remains a difficult balance between commissioners and providers
16 February 2012
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Lansley remains defiant as pressure grows over competition
15-Feb-2012
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Andrew Lansley: competition is critical for NHS reform
13-Feb-2012
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David Kerr: the true value of reform must be defined by patient outcomes
9-Feb-2012
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Healthcare trust hopes to nationalise second-ever PFI hospital
9-Feb-2012
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CCP recommends biggest acute merger go ahead despite 'reducing patient choice'
8-Feb-2012
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North West PTS contracts to be opened up
7-Feb-2012
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Health Bill amendments target integration and secretary of state's duties
2-Feb-2012
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'Hinchingbrooke model' still an option for struggling trust
2-Feb-2012
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No big shift in government Health Bill amendments
1-Feb-2012
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Competition panel highlights GP conflict concern
31-Jan-2012
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Fixed NHS prices could become 'increasingly problematic' commission warns
31-Jan-2012
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Competitive tendering will be ‘as important’ as any qualified provider
18-Jan-2012
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Revealed: Bennett's plan to split Monitor board
13-Jan-2012
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Cluster goes back to the drawing board on AQP
13-Jan-2012
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Noel Plumridge: has the sparkle gone from social enterprise?
12-Jan-2012
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Integrated care needs 'ambitious' target to succeed, DH told
5-Jan-2012
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Locating the right evidence for merger decisions
3-Jan-2012
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Gloucestershire cluster sets out AQP choices
15-Dec-2011
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CCP rules against largest acute merger plan in the country
15-Dec-2011
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Private sector faces referral to Competition Commission
13-Dec-2011
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Embrace NHS competition, Milburn tells Labour
12-Dec-2011
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Main AQP rivals identified by Chesterfield Royal
9-Dec-2011
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Diagnostics, adult hearing, and podiatry to be opened to competition across Manchester
8-Dec-2011
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Adult hearing and musculoskeletal services to be opened to competition in Lancashire
7-Dec-2011
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Cumbria PCT to open up diagnostics and continence services to competition
7-Dec-2011
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Psychological therapies and diagnostics to be opened to any qualified provider in Cheshire
7-Dec-2011
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PCTs take easy option on AQP
7-Dec-2011
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Podiatry and adult hearing services to be opened to competition in Merseyside
7-Dec-2011
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Results business? The view from the HSJ Payments by Results conference 2011
6-Dec-2011
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Gulf in class: how Qatar is driving excellence by investing in academic research
6-Dec-2011
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Exclusive: publishing FT redundancy plans could harm competitiveness, warns Monitor
1-Dec-2011
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Private health market faces referral to the Competition Commission
1 December 2011
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Private sector could take £2bn slice of community services
30-Nov-2011
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Price competition fears over provider penalties
29-Nov-2011
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Trust me, I'm a leader: creating a climate for higher performance
29-Nov-2011
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'This is the kind of disruptive innovation the NHS needs'
25-Nov-2011
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Exclusive: DH and Monitor in 'power battle' over running of regulator
23-Nov-2011
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Competition panel takes York FT complaint to next stage
22-Nov-2011
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Leicestershire PCTs choose final three AQP priority services
18-Nov-2011
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Competition panel moves to second phase of NHS Peterborough investigation
16-Nov-2011
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'Healing our finances needs a long term, not short term, strategy'
10 November 2011
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Private sector warns of training levy danger
10 November 2011
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FTs consider merger that would create largest trust
8-Nov-2011
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Norfolk and Waveney FT signs off delayed merger
1-Nov-2011
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Cornwall names AQP services
26-Oct-2011
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Bennett warns against 'second guessing' merger rulings
14-Oct-2011
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Michael White: Burnham's return signals the start of a grudge match
13-Oct-2011
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'After destructive debate, the case for reform needs to be rebuilt'
13 October 2011
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New Labour competition reforms did not increase health inequalities
13 October 2011
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Monitor sanctions mental health merger
12-Oct-2011
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How to avoid legal pitfalls when procuring goods and services
11-Oct-2011
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Health Bill: medical royal colleges and GPs step up concern
11-Oct-2011
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NHS Confed: Health Bill could lead to vital decisions 'paralysis'
11-Oct-2011
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Health Bill analysis: Lords likely to win policy shifts
10-Oct-2011
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Compete or collaborate? The policy dysphoria facing NHS organisations
10-Oct-2011
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Supply chain faces challenges on two fronts over legal concerns
6-Oct-2011
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Ban commissioners from setting minimum waiting times - CCP
5-Oct-2011
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Government to oppose Lords move for extra Health Bill scrutiny
4-Oct-2011
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CCP puts patient benefit over patient choice in acute merger
30-Sep-2011
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'Healthcare without competition is financially unsustainable'
29-Sep-2011
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'No conflict' in contract awarded to private company associated with commissioners
29-Sep-2011
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Can competition transform healthcare delivery in the NHS?
29 September 2011
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Monitor could suspend competition to encourage integration models
29 September 2011
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Farrar and GP commissioners criticise competition diktat
28-Sep-2011
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Private company accuses foundation trust of 'predatory pricing'
27-Sep-2011
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How public and private sector partnerships could stimulate efficiency improvements
27-Sep-2011
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What the realities of competition mean for organisations' sustainability
26-Sep-2011
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'The NHS needs to avoid the wrong kind of integration'
22-Sep-2011
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Poor NHS cost data will delay national pricing, Audit Commission warns
22-Sep-2011
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Why the NHS needs more transparency in benchmarking to truly drive better services
22 September 2011
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CCP to investigate attempts to close walk-in centre
21-Sep-2011
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Somerset Partnership concerned about any willing provider
21-Sep-2011
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Unions could resist reforms through 'non-cooperation'
19-Sep-2011
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DH reinterprets research showing NHS has competition advantage
15-Sep-2011
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CCP backs commissioners in care home procurement row
15 September 2011
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'Huge opportunities' for private provision under reform - Howe
8-Sep-2011
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Commercial-only finance plans for FTs scaled back
7-Sep-2011
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OFT issues warning on private providers' sweetener payments to consultants
31-Aug-2011
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First large hospital merger approved by CCP
31-Aug-2011
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Lansley is taking us back to medical domination - Lord Crisp
24-Aug-2011
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NHS-university partnerships can 'resist' competition, says chair
18-Aug-2011
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Michael White: the strange landscape of US healthcare
4 August 2011
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Avon and Wiltshire experiments with new forms of independence
1-Aug-2011
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CCP review of Basingstoke merger delayed
29-Jul-2011
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Lansley condemns commissioners as 'cynical' over choice restrictions
29-Jul-2011
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Patient operations deliberately delayed, CCP claims
29-Jul-2011
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Commissioners 'excessively constraining' patient choice
28-Jul-2011
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Choice plans are 'enforced competition', say GPs
22-Jul-2011
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How to overcome the barriers facing public to private sector transitions
21 July 2011
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Why EU competition law is still a central issue in healthcare reform
21 July 2011
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Government launches provider choice for community and mental health services
20-Jul-2011
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Michael White: political meltdown?
14 July 2011
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Labour attacks public services reform plan
12-Jul-2011
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Power to the patients: promised improvements to patient choice need backing up
7 July 2011
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Andrew Taylor to leave competition panel
4-Jul-2011
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Poole and Royal Bournemouth press ahead with joint working
1-Jul-2011
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Suffolk Mental Health Trust 'does not have' merger reports
1-Jul-2011
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Health Bill: competition changes may not be ‘substantive’
24-Jun-2011
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Health Bill: government publishes 181 amendments
24-Jun-2011
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London consortium writes to CCP over 'monopoly' merger
23 June 2011
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The right-to-request primary care trust: one year on
23 June 2011
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Why competition still has its place in NHS
23 June 2011
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DH to 'rely' on local pricing to extend community services competition
22-Jun-2011
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Exclusive: NHS faces 'big problem' if reform timetable slips - Nicholson
22-Jun-2011
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Government losing its way over reforms - CBI boss
17-Jun-2011
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Nicholson: I feared Lansley’s competition rules
16-Jun-2011
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Major power to be focused at centre
15-Jun-2011
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Brakes on competition draw private sector complaints
14-Jun-2011
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Government to scrap 2014 'drop dead' deadline for foundation trust status
14-Jun-2011
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Monitor's role to be softened in bid to quell competition fears
14-Jun-2011
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Exclusive: ministers set to overrule Future Forum
13-Jun-2011
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Future Forum proposes to hand competition powers to Nicholson's commissioning board
13-Jun-2011
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Exclusive: re-written Health Bill will put competition panel on statutory footing
13-Jun-2011
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'The independent sector has a track record of serving patients extremely well'
9-Jun-2011
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BMA GP chief: Prime minister NHS changes 'welcome'
9-Jun-2011
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The government's failure to justify reform has left the public short of options
9 June 2011
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Cameron to outline 'personal guarantees' on NHS
7-Jun-2011
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Cluster considering centralising pathology services across five PCTs
2 June 2011
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Exclusive: government to publish second command paper
27-May-2011
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Exclusive: politicians 'grandstanding' on competition, says review chair
26-May-2011
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NHS South West overrules PCT in 'any qualified provider' and ISTC conflict
26 May 2011
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Head of UK's biggest private provider 'more excited than ever' about NHS reforms
25-May-2011
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Blood service looks set to remain in house
24-May-2011
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Government must remove barriers to integrated care, warns King's Fund
23-May-2011
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Online seminar: driving standards up and costs down
19-May-2011
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Private provider bosses confident of reform opportunities
19-May-2011
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Competition of services could have 'unintended consequences', warns FTN
19 May 2011
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The opportunities 'any qualified provider' can bring to the NHS
19 May 2011
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Clegg opposes NHS competition plan
18-May-2011
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CCP investigate Basingstoke and Winchester merger
16-May-2011
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Clinical networks to respond to competition fears
12-May-2011
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General healthcare boss backs price competition
12 May 2011
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How health sector and independent sector partnerships can bring mutual benefits
12 May 2011
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Why compliance is key to better patient and commercial relationships
12 May 2011
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Joint pathology venture fairly awarded, CCP decides
26-Apr-2011
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Exclusive: hospital trust considers private franchise
21-Apr-2011
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Competition panel okays seven provider trusts to run GPs
14-Apr-2011
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'Any qualified provider' guidance to slow market expansion
14 April 2011
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Mental health trusts are the perfect partner for PCT provider arms
14 April 2011
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PCT agrees transfer of entire estate to aspirant CFT
11-Apr-2011
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Earl Howe orders break-up of North West's 'anti-competitive' four year contract
7-Apr-2011
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Health Bill amendments 'soften' competition rules
7 April 2011
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Don't jump to conclusions on health bill changes, government source warns
1-Apr-2011
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Hakin rules out consortia patient charges
31 March 2011
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PCT Network responds to choice complaints
31 March 2011
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Private sector incident data sharing deal stalls
31 March 2011
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CCP to assess merger of Sefton GPs with Liverpool Community Health Trust
29-Mar-2011
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NW commissioners to pool buying power for continuing care
22-Mar-2011
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Labour tables amendments to planned Monitor role
17 March 2011
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Competition panel to rule on pathology deal
10 March 2011
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'GPs run the risk of alienating themselves from their colleagues'
10 March 2011
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Mental health merger ruled against over competition concerns
10 March 2011
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Lansley fights back on competition
3-Mar-2011
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Government amends Health Bill
3-Mar-2011
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Confed warns over EU purchase rule change
3 March 2011
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Public health 'confusion' for GPs
3 March 2011
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'Sensible boundary' needed on GP competition rules, says Monitor
3 March 2011
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Healey asks Lansley for clarity on price competition
24-Feb-2011
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Commissioners flouting patient choice rules
24 February 2011
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Compensation danger over LIFT contract transfers
24 February 2011
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Monitor chair warns against 'inappropriate influence' on pensions
24 February 2011
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Squaring the price competition and efficiency circle
24 February 2011
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Circle refers two PCTs to Cooperation and Competition Panel
22-Feb-2011
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Cameron unveils privatisation drive
21-Feb-2011
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Reforms will break up NHS - Healey
21-Feb-2011
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Lansley U-turn on price competition
18-Feb-2011
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Bill Moyes: the reform agenda presents a massive opportunity
17 February 2011
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Competition can work, but only with the right tactics
17 February 2011
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Michael White: away from NHS reforms, healthcare problems - and solutions - still sound familiar
17 February 2011
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Lansley: Competition will protect commissioners from 'abusive relationships'
11-Feb-2011
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DH figures showing private sector disadvantage 'almost certainly' wrong - Monitor
10-Feb-2011
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GP services face scrutiny under competition system
10 February 2011
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60% of doctors 'disagree with reforms'
1-Feb-2011
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Poll reveals public mistrust of reforms
31-Jan-2011
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Nigel Edwards calls for constructive dialogue on competition
31-Jan-2011
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Monitor interviews candidates for chair
28-Jan-2011
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Monitor may pay private providers more
25-Jan-2011
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Tribunal to have responsibility for settling disputes over protected services
20-Jan-2011
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Bill could lead to 'dilution' of pensions benefits
20-Jan-2011
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Earl Howe: Contestability is 'not alien to integration'
19-Jan-2011
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The health bill in the news
19-Jan-2011
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NHS market faces closer EU attention
19-Jan-2011
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Nicholson warns price competition could be 'extremely dangerous'
18-Jan-2011
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'People expect public servants to preserve the public good'
17-Jan-2011
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‘Dentists are making their own high pitched whine about the Care Quality Commission’
13 January 2011
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The HSJ and Capgemini Liberating Ideas Award Winners - Winning ideas are going places fast
13-Jan-2011
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GPs will walk a tightrope between making or buying
6 January 2011
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Price rivalry ‘could raise death rates’
6 January 2011
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Price competition could raise death rates, experts warn
17-Dec-2010
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CCP to investigate PCTs 'restricting choice and competition'
17-Dec-2010
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Commissioning group rapped for rules breach
17 December 2010
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Hereford integrated care organisation approved
17 December 2010
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Providers freed to set their own referral to treatment targets and set prices below tariff
15-Dec-2010
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Private healthcare market probed
15-Dec-2010
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Financial checks on NHS providers eased
9 December 2010
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MP questions strategic health planning base
9 December 2010
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PCT chiefs help drive new structure
9 December 2010
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Payment by Results
2-Dec-2010
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NHS Partners in row over ‘cosy’ deal
2 December 2010
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Prepare now for divesting provider arms
2-Dec-2010
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Competition panel bans exclusive provider deals
25 November 2010
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'Dorrell argues now for quiet pragmatism, for letting change evolve'
25 November 2010
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Mark Britnell: quick fixes for making efficiency gains
25 November 2010
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Open clinical data to public, urges Lansley adviser
25 November 2010
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'The challenge is to get better average outcomes and reduce variation'
25 November 2010
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DH to appoint new Monitor chair
23-Nov-2010
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Can patient choice alone force the changes the service needs?
17-Nov-2010
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Easton criticises 'appalling and self-interested' NHS culture
17-Nov-2010
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Former RSM president condemns NHS reforms as 'anathema'
12-Nov-2010
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The NHS needs to re-invent itself to cope with funding cuts
4 November 2010
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Big Society: little guys vs big guns
28 October 2010
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Outsourcing quotas to drive mixed health services provider market
27-Oct-2010
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Fair trading complaint raises healthcare competition warning
21 October 2010
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'Who will own the NHS?'
21 October 2010
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Integrated healthcare: removing the policy barriers
19-Oct-2010
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Reckitt Benckiser fined for anti-competitive activity
15-Oct-2010
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Competition could change the face of healthcare
14 October 2010
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Follow the leaders – or waste billions of pounds every year
14 October 2010
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Future RCGP leader issues warning on 'market expansion'
11-Oct-2010
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Transforming Community Services: PCTs step closer to deciding fate of provider arms
7 October 2010
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Thorny NHS reform issues unresolved
6-Oct-2010
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Competition will 'overshadow' white paper benefits - BMA
1-Oct-2010
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Public service reform in an age of cuts: where next?
20-Sep-2010
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Nicholson steps up reform with radical savings move
15-Sep-2010
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Incentives required to bring about NHS collaboration
2 September 2010
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Competition scrutiny for North West
19 August 2010
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Two bidders left in NHS hospital franchise race
11-Aug-2010
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Answering the NHS's £14bn productivity question
22 July 2010
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Concerns over standard of specialist care
22 July 2010
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How New Labour changed NHS management culture
19-Jul-2010
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GP commissioners warned to heed EU law
15 July 2010
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Studies back NHS competition and choice
8 July 2010
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Clarity is the key to tackling excess admissions
1 July 2010
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Hospital phone costs to be reviewed
30-Jun-2010
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Co-operation not competition best for NHS, say experts
28-Jun-2010
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Conservatives warming to vertical integration, says Nuffield director
24-Jun-2010
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Cally Bann: 'Remember it’s not over until the fat vuvuzela’s blown'
24 June 2010
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Andrew Lansley challenges a decade of NHS spending
23-Jun-2010
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'Don't doubt the government’s commitment to radical NHS reform'
17 June 2010
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Coalition combines NHS policies: Tory competition with Lib Dem local democracy
20-May-2010
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UCLH plan to rescue Barts from PFI crisis
20 May 2010
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Next government must quash preferred provider policy
28-Apr-2010
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Drug firms lose battle over pricing
23-Apr-2010
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Alan Maynard: axe must swing on NHS jobs and pay
22 April 2010
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Mark Britnell on keeping the wolf from the NHS door
22 April 2010
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NHS procurement probe was halted by last minute DH phone call
22 April 2010
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PCTs depend on commissioning support
22 April 2010
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Paul Corrigan and Bill Moyes on foundation trust autonomy
15 April 2010
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Disputed branch surgery gets go-ahead from government
14-Apr-2010
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Labour and Tories set out health plans to woo electorate
14-Apr-2010
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Labour pledges personalised care revolution
13-Apr-2010
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Flimsy electoral one-liners must make way for realistic policies
8 April 2010
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Hospital merger benefits questioned
8 April 2010
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London merger plans revealed
8 April 2010
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NHS innovation: can the health service drive new ideas?
8 April 2010
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Norman Warner: face up to NHS efficiencies
8 April 2010
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Ealing and Harrow merger gets go-ahead
7-Apr-2010
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PCTs gain powers to force services out to community
1-Apr-2010
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Preferred provider guidance leaves waters muddy
31-Mar-2010
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Andy Jones on defining NHS quality
31 March 2010
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David Kerr: health policy just got personal
31 March 2010
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Andy McKeon: why money could not unravel the NHS red tape
25 March 2010
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How Labour saved the NHS from the brink
25 March 2010
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Andrew Haldenby on hospital closures and competition
17-Mar-2010
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Bill Moyes teams with Paul Corrigan in policy talks
17-Mar-2010
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Contestability and choice
11-Mar-2010
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‘Preferred provider’ policy unravels
11 March 2010
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Paul Corrigan on suspending NHS incentives
11 March 2010
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Preferred provider policy: unions jilted, Burnham jolted, competition wins the day
11 March 2010
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Lansley urges OFT to investigate preferred provider case
5-Mar-2010
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Excluding independent sector from NHS services 'potentially unlawful'
4-Mar-2010
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DH accused of 'backroom deal' over preferred provider case
4-Mar-2010
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Hertfordshire PCTs merge into one
3-Mar-2010
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NHS market reforms are not linked with better care
3-Mar-2010
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Tories outline hospital efficiency plans
26-Feb-2010
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Fresh investigations stall Kingston branch surgery plans
24-Feb-2010
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OFT to investigate heartburn drug competition
24-Feb-2010
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NHS East of England boss rejects Hinchingbrooke privatisation claim
19-Feb-2010
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Strong managers 'improve NHS care'
19-Feb-2010
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Monitor revises private patient income cap rules
18 February 2010
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Private option for Hinchingbrooke looks more likely
17-Feb-2010
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DH dismisses own advisory panel's claims on procurement and competition as 'anecdote'
4-Feb-2010
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Many commissioners breach NHS competition rules
4 February 2010
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European court ruling boosts NHS contract bidders
1-Feb-2010
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Peter Reeves: a new deal for NHS non-executives
28 January 2010
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SHA steps in to GP branch row
28 January 2010
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Provider arms given timetable to vertically integrate
27-Jan-2010
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Care UK chief hits out at renewal process as ITC contracts expire
21 January 2010
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DH drawn into row over GP practice expansion
14 January 2010
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Five firms and one FT shortlisted to take over NHS hospital
8-Jan-2010
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Andrew Jones on healthcare Darwinism
7 January 2010
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Supply chain efficiency
Your Ideas and Suggestions 2010
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PCT loses out to GPs in battle over branch surgery
21-Dec-2009
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Competition panel to investigate preferred provider policy
18-Dec-2009
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Foundation trusts urged to take over more NHS activity
16-Dec-2009
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Tariff puts brake on acute admissions
16-Dec-2009
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Principles and practice of provider economics
15-Dec-2009
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NHS operating framework to offer mixed blessings for hospitals
11-Dec-2009
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Court rules Monitor unlawful on private patient cap
10-Dec-2009
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DH and unions thrash out deal on transfer of NHS staff pensions
26 November 2009
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Nick Bosanquet: history offers the NHS survival skills
26 November 2009
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Charities warn Andy Burnham of preferred provider fears
25-Nov-2009
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South Essex provider shortlist cut to three
25-Nov-2009
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Property and competition to be investigated following takeover
18-Nov-2009
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David Nicholson: ride the wave of NHS innovation
12 November 2009
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David Cameron pulls together threads on health policy
5 November 2009
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Noel Plumridge on medicine’s gender balance
5 November 2009
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Drug firm to compensate NHS
29-Oct-2009
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Andy Burnham stands ground after taking fire on competition rules
29 October 2009
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Andy Burnham’s flawed NHS regime will stifle commissioning ambitions
29 October 2009
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Hinchingbrooke opens to bidding for franchise
29 October 2009
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Paul Corrigan: why Andy Burnham is wrong to rip up the NHS competition rulebook
29 October 2009
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Andy Burnham extends preferred provider vow
22 October 2009
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Tories need clear vision and a stronger message on health
22 October 2009
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Mental health FTs allowed to treat private patients, but rules face fundamental review
13-Oct-2009
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Andrew Lansley on a Conservative recipe for NHS reform
8 October 2009
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FT chief: ‘can-do’ bid won our merger
8 October 2009
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Information for improvement: joint working
8 October 2009
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NHS admin must be slashed by £1.5bn
8 October 2009
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Two thirds of PCTs still to agree provider model
8 October 2009
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Andy Burnham’s ideas may be more about his future
1 October 2009
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FT warning over competition panel ruling on consultants
1 October 2009
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Stephen Eames on defending district general hospitals
1 October 2009
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Andy Burnham speech delivers body blow to NHS competition and choice
24 September 2009
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Andy Burnham’s preferred bidder pledge questioned
24 September 2009
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NHS competition panel rejects limit on consultants’ work outside their contracts
24 September 2009
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Paul Corrigan on NHS reform
24 September 2009
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Chris Ham on increasing NHS co-operation
17 September 2009
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London PCT and council consider merger
17 September 2009
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Mike Farrar on QIPP - quality, innovation, productivity and prevention
10 September 2009
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NHS spending: McKinsey exposes hard choices to save £20bn
10 September 2009
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Acute trust mergers expected to increase
9-Sep-2009
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Competition panel examines trust takeover bids
16 July 2009
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Minister sets out limits of competition and choice
16 July 2009
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Competition panel to investigate Kingston PCT
8-Jul-2009
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NHS competition panel allows foundation trust to take over community services
30-Jun-2009
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Avoid tendering pitfalls, warns NHS competition panel director
12-Jun-2009
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Concerns NHS could be challenged under EU competition law
11 June 2009
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Competition panel looks at NHS provider shift
27-May-2009
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Role of competition panel under review
21 May 2009
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Sink or swim: how small hospitals survive competition
20-May-2009
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Alan Johnson seeks to rein in co-operation and competition panel
7 May 2009
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Competition panel launches inquiry into consultants' private work
16 April 2009
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Foundation trusts warn competition could fragment NHS
16 April 2009
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Prospect of serious competition rattles foundation trusts
16 April 2009
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Caption competition: Gordon Brown at King's College hospital
2 April 2009
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Chris Ham slams anti-competition guidance
5-Mar-2009
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Michael White on NHS co-operation and competition
5-Feb-2009
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Panel to judge on NHS competition rows
29-Jan-2009
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BMA against more competition
29-Jan-2009
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Spectre of more competition haunts NHS
29-Jan-2009
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Social enterprise given three year shield from competition
27-Nov-2008
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Lord Carter to head up NHS competition panel
18-Sep-2008
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Chair of NHS co-operation and competition panel named
11-Sep-2008
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Your Humble Servant on co-payments and co-operation
28-Aug-2008
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Hilary Thomas on healthy competition
11-Aug-2008
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Lessons learned from competition in the tender process
8-Aug-2008
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on NHS co-operation
26-Jun-2008
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Choice and competition are not local reality
19-Jun-2008
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NHS Alliance warning over damage caused by competition
17-Jan-2008
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Medics warn competition will harm patients
9-Jan-2008
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Transferring assets to social enterprises - the perks and quirks
28-Sep-2007
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GP tendering could herald new era of competition for practices
9-Aug-2007
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Johnson wants competition to prop up poor GP access
26-Jul-2007
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PCT calls for GP referral competition to be shelved
12-Jul-2007
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Scottish health secretary rejects healthcare competition
21-Jun-2007
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PM's unit pushes more, but 'fairer', competition
22-Mar-2007
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Competition 'won't add quality'
1-Jan-2007
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Competition hots up for 2006 HSJ Awards
7-Sep-2006
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Competition risks
24-Nov-2005
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DAVID AMOS ON COMPETITION
8-Sep-2005
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Kerr calls for co-operation
31-Mar-2005
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'This is unfair competition'
20-Jan-2005
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Wider CDM competition sought
8-Jul-2004
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CHI: 'Supertrust' lacks co-operation
15-Aug-2002
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CHI: 'Supertrust' lacks co-operation
15-Aug-2002
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Pilot study tests limits of co-operation
7-Dec-2000
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Co-operation without politics
20-Apr-2000
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Short cuts 'Stifled competition will create shortages' warning
6-May-1999
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Closed shop for cronies is not what the NHS needs Supermanagers' breeding ground could suppress competition for top jobs
15-Apr-1999
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Hospital project is 'proof' of new co-operation in NHS
15-Jan-1998
