The Department of Health has launched a procurement drive to set up a framework of organisations to help primary care trust provider arms become social enterprises.
The department is hoping to recruit a panel of business support providers to offer PCTs “tailored support that is unlikely to be available from within the PCT itself”.
A DH spokeswoman said there was no value for the tender as support would be commissioned by PCTs.
Senior clinicians have called for a review into how hundreds of patients have been left without intravenous food after action by the medical regulator severly curtailed its supply.
The £25m promised by Boris Johnson to hospices and palliative care services will come from existing NHS budgets and may require efficiencies in other areas, HSJ has been told.
A trust merger which was first proposed in 2011 has been delayed again – this time by up to 18 months.
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