All Independent providers articles – Page 70
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News
David Lawrence offers some words of advice to Mr Brown
'Yes, Mr Brown, as you well understand, the NHS is a business operation in that it is an input-output system with desired outcomes'
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HSJ Knowledge
Foundation trusts: understanding the private patient cap
Legislation governing how many private patients foundation trusts can take on can present challenges for trusts wishing to carry out more private work. Trevor Blythe explains the rules
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News
ISTC data is 'poor quality'
National data on the clinical quality of independent sector treatment centres must be improved, according to a review by the Healthcare Commission.
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HSJ Knowledge
Good neighbours
Moving in with the competition could have unexpected benefits, writes Stuart Shepherd
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PCT calls for GP referral competition to be shelved
Plans to have the NHS and the private sector compete for GP referrals in north Cumbria should be shelved in favour of the two working together, its primary care trust has said.
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News
Providers criticise NHS Choices site
The NHS Choices website is hampering users' ability to access the extended choice list, a network of independent providers has claimed.
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Cabinet reshuffle: private sector fights to stay on agenda
Private providers have called on the new health secretary to clarify his commitment to independent sector expansion amid fears it will slip down the political agenda.
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HSJ Knowledge
Social enterprise: a rich seam of ideas
Trailblazing pathfinders are using new funding to create choice and breathe new life into communities. Louise Hunt reports
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£35m ISTC deal scrapped
The Department of Health has pulled the plug on one of the biggest wave-two independent sector treatment centre schemes. And there are rumours that more cancellations are on the way, with the entire surgical component at risk.
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Controversial and divisive: Whitehall's own Big Brother
Some say the Department of Health's commercial directorate employs questionable methods, while others eulogise over its success in getting best value for patients. As a new chief executive takes over, Daloni Carlisle examines the controversies to date
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Comment
Chris Ham on integrating to compete in the NHS
'Instead of separating the roles of buyers and sellers in the NHS, the government needs to encourage closer integration between hospitals and GPs'
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News
ITC plans scrapped: NHS services are 'better value'
Plans for an independent sector treatment centre at Hemel Hempstead Hospital have been dropped because it would have been too expensive.
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HSJ Knowledge
Legal briefing: private care homes and the human rights anomaly
Under current legislation, the Human Rights Act.applies only to public authorities and those performing public functions - not.to private care homes. Corinne Slingo and Rachael Heenan explain the law and its implications
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Comment
Hilary Thomas on her honeymoon period
'I am like a pig in the proverbial. I am no longer part of a demoralised, cynical workforce, ground down by the inevitability of stasis and rigidity'
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Will next month's ban fire up PCT stop-smoking services?
With the smoking ban just days away, the government points to huge funding boosts for smoking cessation, but is the money hitting home? Daloni Carlisle reports
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Comment
Independent treatment centre move redefines choice
'The DoH appears to be considering pushing PCTs to use independent sector treatment centres.- even to the extent of trying to steer patient choice'
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Trusts face monitoring on take-up of private services
Primary care trusts in the North West risk being performance managed on the number of patients who use the private sector-operated national clinical assessment services across the patch, HSJ has learned.
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Legal briefing: foundation trusts test the waters on mergers and acquisitions
Following the first merger between a foundation trust and an NHS trust earlier this year,.other acquisitions are now in the pipeline. Melanie Print reports on recent developments.and asks whether private sector purchasers will be able to get involved
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BBC-style management could save NHS from 'political ice'
The NHS is unsustainable in its present form and should be run independently, according to a Nuffield Trust report.
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Providers brace for new regulation fee regime
NHS organisations and providers are set to be hit with regulation fees for the first time, HSJ has learned.