All Competition and co-operation articles – Page 14
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HSJ KnowledgeCommunity services: challenges in retendering and renewal
Explaining the impact of the TCS programme
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CommentWhen is a trust failure not a failure?
The ambiguity over FTs’ insolvency has consequences for mergers
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NewsFT merger decision exposes policy confusion
Policy surrounding NHS service change has been labelled a “mess” after the first merger between foundation trusts was blocked on the same day as NHS England’s chief executive demanded radical service reconfiguration nationwide.
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NewsCompetition Commission says no to FT merger
The first merger between two foundation trusts looks set to be blocked by the Competition Commission after the regulator rejected NHS arguments about the level of competition between the organisations.
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NewsGovernment 'likely to need legislation' to change NHS merger rules
The government is likely to have to legislate if it wants to change the regulation of NHS provider mergers, HSJ has been told.
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NewsOFT to probe health service IT market
The Office of Fair Trading has launched an investigation which will examine the health service IT market.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to obtain public value in procurement
Challenging traditional methods of healthcare procurement
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HSJ Local
Monitor findings stand on Cornwall competition complaint
COMMERCIAL: Monitor has upheld its ruling that Cornwall primary care trust should have been more transparent in its commissioning of learning disability services.
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NewsDoctors 'not empowered by reforms'
Almost two-thirds of doctors feel less “empowered” than they did before the government’s controversial health reforms, a new poll suggests.
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CommentMaintaining the competitive edge when trusts merge
The remedies that can be imposed on a problematic merger
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HSJ Local
Clock starts again on Dorset FT merger
STRUCTURE: The Competition Commission has “started the clock” again on the merger between two of Dorset’s foundation trusts.
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NewsBurnham backs central planning
A centrally planned health service is “inherently” more efficient than a marketised one, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has told the NHS Confederation annual conference.
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NewsAnalysed: District general hospitals look to private patient income
District general hospitals are increasing their private patient offerings
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CommentWhy specialist hospitals aren't like Hilton hotels
The limitations of using the ‘friends and family’ test in emergency care
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HSJ Local
Monitor highlights Cornwall PCT 'lack of transparency'
COMMERCIAL: Monitor has provisionally rejected a private sector provider’s complaint that a south west primary care trust breached competition rules - but criticised the commissioner’s lack of transparency.
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NewsPatients able to complain to Monitor about anti-competitive behaviour
Monitor will consider complaints about anti-competitive commissioning from individual patients and representative groups, under new guidance.
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HSJ Local
FTN challenges 'assumptions' in Dorset FT merger
COMERCIAL: The Foundation Trust Network has written to the Competition Commission to challenge some of its assumptions about competition in the NHS.
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NewsExclusive: Competition ‘jeopardy’ for icon of integration
Commissioners of Torbay’s pioneering integrated care organisation are taking legal advice amid fears its progress could be placed “in jeopardy” by a requirement to competitively tender some services, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: Acute and community provider may compete to lead frail elderly service
An acute provider and a community health trust are likely to compete to be the lead provider of services for the frail elderly under planned changes to contracting in Oxfordshire.