All Independent providers articles – Page 32
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NewsOutsourcer enters healthcare market
Outsourcer MITIE Group has entered the healthcare market by acquiring home care services provider Enara Group for £110.8m, the company has announced.
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HSJ Local
Bournemouth healthcheck deal breaches data protection act
PERFORMANCE: NHS Bournemouth and Poole has been found guilty of breaching the Data Protection Act for passing patient information to a company it had commissioned to carry out NHS health checks.
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HSJ LocalLegal challenge to Virgin's children's services contract
COMMERCIAL: A primary care trust’s decision to award a £132m contract for children’s services to Virgin Care is to be challenged in court next week.
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NewsPrivate acute admissions hit record level
Surgical admissions by independent hospitals have hit a record high - driven by NHS admissions rather than spending by private patients - according to a new report.
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NewsSerco questions 'bullish' forecasts for community services growth
The managing director of outsourcing giant Serco’s health business has cast doubt on “bullish” forecasts of a rapid expansion of private sector provision of NHS community services.
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NewsDH abandons plan to stop 'cherry picking' through tariff change
The Department of Health has abandoned plans to prevent the “cherry picking” of straightforward patients and cases by independent sector providers by making further changes to the payment by results tariff, it has emerged.
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HSJ LocalAnalysed: the future of South London Healthcare Trust
What happens next for South London Healthcare Trust - the first to be placed in the failure regime?
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NewsHuge variation in CCG staff numbers
There will be huge variation between clinical commissioning groups’ internal staff numbers and their reliance on independent support services, according to the first analysis of the structure of the new groups.
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HSJ Local
Virgin Care wins medical centre contract
COMMERCIAL: NHS Dorset has named Virgin Care as preferred provider of medical and community services at Lyme Regis medical centre in a contract worth up to £8.5m over five years.
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NewsCQC warns of independent sector failings
Almost two fifths of independent sector mental health units do not comply with rules set out in the Mental Health Act, according to Care Quality Commission data.
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NewsHinchingbrooke falls again in patient satisfaction rankings
Privately-run Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust has fallen again in the monthly league table of hospital patient satisfaction being piloted across the Midlands and East of England.
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NewsCQC's 'hands are tied' on enforcement action
The Care Quality Commission’s board has complained it has a lack of effective powers to force providers to address poor care.
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HSJ LocalSerco admits staff falsified records
COMMERCIAL: A private sector provider has admitted that staff working on its GP out-of-hours service in Cornwall altered performance data.
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NewsStruggling FTs may face insolvency regime in 2013-14 - Hay
Monitor may need to place some NHS foundation trusts in administration as soon as 2013-14 – the first year its powers to do so take effect, the regulator’s chief operating officer has suggested.
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HSJ Local
Care UK contract sparks protests
COMMERCIAL: NHS North of Tyne is facing angry opposition to its decision to award the contract for running a GP practice to private provider Care UK.
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HSJ Local
OFT invites comment on proposed private cancer unit at Guy's and St Thomas'
COMMERCIAL: The Office of Fair Trading has issued an invitation to comment on the “anticipated acquisition by HCA International Limited of the lease of premises from Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Foundation Trust in order to install and operate a private patient unit in relation to cancer treatment and radiotherapy services”.
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HSJ Local
MTW on Circle’s list of ‘growth opportunities’
STRUCTURE: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust has been named as one of 32 trusts viewed by private provider Circle as constituting an “NHS growth opportunity” totalling more than £8bn.
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HSJ Local
East Sussex on list of potential targets for Circle
STRUCTURE: East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has been named as one of 32 trusts viewed by private provider Circle as constituting an “NHS growth opportunity” totalling more than £8bn.
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NewsExclusive: NHS or private expressions of interest sought to run 'failing' trust
The special administrator for the first hospital to be subjected to the failure regime has invited expressions of interest from the NHS and private sector to take over all or part of the organisation.
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NewsNHS on course to lose pensions advantage
The NHS’s competitive advantage is set to be significantly weakened by a move to offer the NHS pension to all private sector staff working on clinical contracts funded by the service.