All Independent providers articles – Page 73
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Chair quits over private power
A primary care trust chair has resigned in protest at the increasing role of the private sector in the NHS. Rochdale PCT chair Debbie Abrahams spoke to HSJ after her announcement at a public demonstration in Manchester.
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MPs find no evidence of improved value from independent treatment centres
There is no evidence that the Department of Health's independent treatment centre programme represents value for money or performs better than the NHS, according to a damning report.
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Scotland: first privately run treatment centre signed
Contracts were signed last week for Scotland's first privately run regional treatment centre for NHS patients.
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Care UK chief urges swift ISTC take-up
Chief executive Mike Parish sounds a cautionary note that government must move quickly to ensure a local ownership care system takes route
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HSJ Knowledge
How to commission high quality, low cost health care
The 152 new primary care trusts are tasked with becoming strategic commissioning bodies. This means they must procure a range of provision for local people, which meets their health needs and delivers health improvements, by securing the highest value for their limited money. Stating the task is easy. Delivering it ...
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Care UK buys rival provider
Private healthcare firm Care UK has boosted its position as an NHS care provider by buying rival Mercury Health for £77m.
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Bupa pulls out of South East diagnostics deal
Bupa has pulled out of a contract with the Department of Health to provide NHS diagnostic services across the South East, HSJ has learned.
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Boost for social firms
Twenty-four local social enterprise schemes have been given £1.4m of national funding to deliver community health and social care services.
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NHS vs independents: the book
For the first time patients will be able to compare NHS services to those offered by independent providers in an updated choice manual to be published this week.
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Managers betrayed by outsourcing, says union
The government expects private companies to form consortia to bid for places as approved commissioning support suppliers, NHS acting chief executive Sir Ian Caruthers has revealed.
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Former chief exec calls for more private beds for children
Commissioners should make greater use of the independent sector to stop children from being placed on adult mental health wards, a former mental health trust chief executive has said.
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Good intentions could be disguising a big, bad threat
It is the much-heralded new model for 21st century healthcare provision, but could confusion over its meaning and the lack of safeguards against manipulation leave social enterprise open to abuse from profit-makers? Helen Mooney finds out
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DoH will not limit private audiology
The Department of Health is refusing to bow to calls to limit private sector provision of audiology services.
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Primary care trusts told to fill Atos gap
NHS providers could struggle to fill the gap left by the collapse of a £257m diagnostics contract.
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Operating framework: PCTs to assess services
All primary care trusts will have to conduct a service review programme next year to examine the services they commission.
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HSJ Knowledge
Staying power: beacon sites offer some answers
Why could US provider Kaiser provide better care at the same cost as the NHS? Why were there so many bed days in the UK? After four years of questions, writes Professor Chris Ham, beacon sites are providing answers
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Skilled analysts of little use to the NHS
Do external consultants working in NHS organisations really deliver the goods? Birmingham University's Jonathan Shapiro argues that they may know how to diagnose problems, but cultural signposts pass them by
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Statutory control on decisions is not enough to allay fears
All over the country, primary care trust chief executives are sitting hot and sweaty in their best suits, fighting for their future careers.
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Air ambulance charities hope for NHS cash
Air ambulance charities believe the NHS is ready to recognise the role they could play in improving emergency care - and that funding for improved services could be on the cards.
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Helpline aims for foundation trust status
NHS Direct has become a trust under the Department of Health's review of arm's-length bodies.