All Independent providers articles – Page 51
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NewsDH figures showing private sector disadvantage 'almost certainly' wrong - Monitor
Department of Health figures showing NHS providers enjoy a significant advantage over the private sector are “incomplete” and may hide a net disadvantage to the NHS, Monitor has said.
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HSJ Local
NHS Cornwall teams up to re-procure services using any willing provider
COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY: NHS Cornwall is planning to work with neighbouring primary care trusts to re-procure elective services under the “any willing provider” model.
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HSJ Local
NHS Plymouth teams up to re-procure services using any willing provider
COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY: NHS Plymouth is planning to work with neighbouring primary care trusts to re-procure elective services under the “any willing provider” model.
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HSJ Local
NHS Devon teams up to re-procure services using any willing provider
COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY: NHS Devon is planning to work with neighbouring primary care trusts to re-procure elective services under the “any willing provider” model.
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HSJ Local
Yeovil District Hospital FT talks pathology with private sector
COMMERCIAL: Yeovil District Hospital FT and Taunton and Somerset FT are looking at developing an integrated pathology service.
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NewsExclusive: Lib Dem MPs closer to opposition on health reform
Liberal Democrat MPs are more closely aligned with Labour than with Conservatives on health policy, new research into MPs’ opinions reveals.
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NewsFlory tells PCTs to give providers leeway over winter pressures
Commissioners have been urged to adjust their payments to hospital trusts struggling to deal with winter pressures on emergency care.
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Procurement inefficiencies costing £500m, report finds
Providers could save £500m by standardising orders of products like paper and gloves and sharing the savings made by purchasing in bulk across a group of trusts, according to a National Audit Office report.
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NewsReforms will destroy the NHS, claims Unite
Hospitals will close, tens of thousands of jobs will be axed and health services will become more expensive under the government’s radical NHS reforms, the country’s biggest union has warned.
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NewsRCS warns quality of care could decline
Standards of patient care may be compromised if GPs focus on “the lowest price” rather than quality when it comes to health spending, the Royal College of Surgeons of England has warned.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe transition from primary care to independent provider
Reflecting on our transition to an independent provider of NHS care, one central word that seems to have held a unique place within the process and still resonates with City Health Care Partnership CIC is: “why?”
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NewsLansley insists 'risky' reforms are vital
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has said there was “risk” involved with his radical NHS reforms, but change was necessary to improve standards for patients.
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NewsPoll reveals public mistrust of reforms
Just one in four people support GPs using private companies to provide NHS services, one of the key measures of the government’s health reforms, the results of a new poll suggest.
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NewsNigel Edwards calls for constructive dialogue on competition
The head of the NHS Confederation has urged for “constructive dialogue” about the effect of greater competition in healthcare.
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NewsHumana 'assured' client it was committed to UK market
US health insurance giant Humana gave a major NHS client “personal assurances” it was committed to the UK just months before it announced plans to exit the market, the client said this week.
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NewsLansley: reforms will not see banker-style bonuses
Health secretary Andrew Lansley today defended sweeping NHS reforms against claims that GPs would qualify for banker-style bonuses and private firms would win major contracts.
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Watch: Andrew Lansley at HSJ's 'Delivering a New Approach to Public Health' conference
On the day the government’s radical reforms for the NHS were laid out in full in the Health and Social Care Bill, health secretary Andrew Lansley spoke to the audience at HSJ and LGC’s Public Health Congress about what the changes mean for the health service and the people who ...
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NewsMonitor may pay private providers more
Private providers could be paid 14 per cent more than NHS competitors to encourage a fairer playing field, under changes in the Health Bill.
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NewsThe provider's essential guide to the Health Bill
As with commissioning consortia, the bill presented providers with a mixture of new freedoms and potential restraints.
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NewsAudit Commission issues public interest report on struggling acute trust
The Audit Commission today issued a public interest report declaring an acute trust had “failed to meet its statutory financial duty” to break even over the five-year period ending last March.