All Independent providers articles – Page 28
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CommentA healthy level of competition and choice
Mental health has quietly and effectively been using competition
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NewsMonitor asked to consider hostility to new GP providers
New primary care providers are being stifled by GP commissioner hostility, and the inability of existing practices to sell their businesses, the health sector regulator has been told.
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NewsUnitedHealth confirms Optum rebrand
UnitedHealth UK’s chief executive has insisted in an HSJ interview that the firm’s NHS business will grow and also confirmed that the company will rebrand.
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Blogs
Unexpected rise in August waiting list
The waiting list put on a surprising growth spurt in August. Yet long-waits performance remained steady.
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NewsNHS staff transferred to private sector will keep pensions
The Treasury has approved plans for workers transferred out of the health service to retain NHS pensions, in a move predicted to make it easier for independent providers to win NHS contracts.
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HSJ LocalMonitor to probe CCGs' block contract
Monitor is to investigate a complaint that referrals to a private hospital dropped after two clinical commissioning groups entered into a block contract with a local NHS hospital.
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SupplementsA closer look at partnership − an HSJ facilities supplement
How to get the most of the NHS’s estate and work effectively with the private sector
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NewsKeogh recommendation on cosmetic surgery is ignored
Cosmetic surgery clinics are still offering perks such as chauffeurs and package deals despite NHS England recommending they should be banned.
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NewsBurnham sets out plans for repeal of Health Act
Labour would force clinical commissioning groups to include a wider range of clinicians and reverse the increased private patient income cap, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has told HSJ.
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HSJ Local
Central Surrey scores below average on PLACE standards
PERFORMANCE: Social enterprise Central Surrey Health scored below average for all four standards in the new patient-led ward inspection regime.
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NewsExclusive: Loss-making UnitedHealth UK plans rebrand
UnitedHealth is to wind up its UK arm and plans to shift staff into another subsidiary with a more pan-European focus, HSJ understands.
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CommentPredicted wave of tenders refuses to arrive
Lack of TCS tenders is one of many miseries facing commissioners
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HSJ Local
Mental health trusts to advise Bupa
Bupa has announced a partnership with two mental health foundation trusts in London to advise it on the provision of mental health services.
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NewsFurther complaints to NHS competition watchdog 'almost guaranteed'
A number of private providers are likely to take complaints to the NHS’s new competition regulator Monitor over the next three years, the chief executive officer of Ramsay Health Care UK warned last week.
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HSJ LocalTen bidders announced for £800m older people's contract
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group today announced the 10 bidders that have passed the first stage of a contest to provide integrated older people’s services worth up to £800m.
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NewsNHS contracts firm gave to Tories
An American health firm which runs key NHS services has donated £17,000 to the Tories, Electoral Commission records show.
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NewsUK's first private medical school announced
The UK’s first private medical school is about to be launched.
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NewsPrivate hospital groups face selling off sites
Private healthcare groups face having to sell off sites after the competition watchdog found 101 private hospitals across the UK have little local competition.
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HSJ Local
Integrated care company goes into administration
COMMERCIAL: A company that offered referral guidance to NHS patients in Surrey and provided consultant-led, specialist clinics has gone into administration weeks after losing its contract.
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Blogs
Your 18 week waits: June 2013 data
All the local detail on 18 weeks by provider, commissioner and specialty, with interactive maps