All Independent providers articles – Page 61
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DH extends Atos choose and book contract
The Department of Health has signed a two year contract with Atos Healthcare to continue managing the choose and book system.
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NHS offers private providers shelter in rough economic seas
Until recently private providers could afford to be choosy about what NHS work they took on. Now, as the economy shrinks, the health service will become a vital source of income. Alison Moore reports
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MPs hear Richards review skirted major top-up areas
The government’s decision to allow co-payments for private treatments assumed it is best to make expensive drugs ‘as freely available as possible’, MPs have been told.
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Panel to judge on NHS competition rows
The Co-operation and Competition Panel opens for business tomorrow and both private and NHS organisations are preparing lists of the issues they want it to address in its first year.
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Monitor faces review over private patient income cap
Trade union Unison is to push ahead with its legal challenge to foundation trust regulator Monitor over its interpretation of the private patient income cap.
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Outsourced NHS staff hit by pensions blow
The Department of Health has effectively barred outsourced health service employees from the NHS pension scheme in a bid to cut the government's growing liabilities.
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BMA against more competition
The British Medical Association has vowed to campaign against increased competition and privatisation as the NHS feels the effects of the recession.
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Middle managers warned not to shun private sector
Senior NHS managers are no longer opposed to private sector involvement in the health service, but their juniors often are, according to the NHS Confederation.
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HSJ Knowledge
NHS career development: moving to the private sector
The NHS offers many managers a career for life, but what is it like on the other side of the fence? Louise Hunt and Helen Mooney spoke to six long-timers who escaped their comfort zone and made the switch to the private sector
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Foundations face threat to joint ventures
Foundation trusts face narrowed commercial opportunities because of a gap in the government's insolvency regime, the Foundation Trust Network has warned.
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HSJ Knowledge
Health tourism: don't forget your toothbrush…
Estimates suggest as many as 150,000 Britons will travel abroad for medical treatment this year. But how is health tourism likely to affect the NHS, asks Alison Moore
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Independent sector treatment centres could keep subsidies
The Department of Health has indicated it may revisit its pledge that independent sector treatment centres will not receive subsidies over the NHS tariff when their current contracts run out.
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Mark Hackett on healthcare and customer confidence
Some years ago our commissioners grasped the reality of market dynamics and sought to break traditional monopolies in healthcare provision. Cue the local opening of one of the country's largest independent sector treatment centres.
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Advancing quality in the North West
The system being implemented in the North West was developed by US firm Premier, owned by 200 of the country’s not-for-profit hospitals.
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NHS braced for worst of Alistair Darling's £5bn spending cuts
The NHS must prepare for a substantial cut in planned funding from the year after next.Chancellor Alistair Darling's pre-Budget report set out plans to cut £5bn from government spending plans for 2010-11 - and the NHS is the largest of 12 areas that could be hit.
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Spectre of past mistakes looms over GP access push
The £250m programme to provide new GP-led health centres in every local area risks repeating the mistakes made when independent sector treatment centres were set up, academics have warned.
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Michael White on pharmaceutical price regulation
I am indebted to Fred Curzon, 7th Earl Howe and veteran Tory health spokesman in the Lords, for a little gem of a debate in the upper house the other evening. It was doubtless neglected because of the Yachtgate affair in Corfu and relative trivia like the global financial collapse.
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NHS trusts dump Capita over payroll errors
Five NHS organisations with more than 16,000 staff have ended a payroll contract with Capita after a catalogue of errors. The contract had been due to run to 2010 but was terminated last week after just 18 months.
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Colonoscopy review triggers nearly 100 recalls
Around 100 patients treated at an independent sector treatment centre have been offered further tests after concerns their procedures may not have been carried out thoroughly.
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Scotland moves to stop GP 'commercialisation'
The Scottish government is today launching a consultation on the eligibility criteria for providers of GP services in a bid to stop the 'commercialisation' of GP practices.