All Price competition articles – Page 6
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Comment'The independent sector has a track record of serving patients extremely well'
The hostile opposition towards private involvement in NHS provision is growing ever louder. But politics is getting in the way of policy, and the private sector is not the villain in NHS reform, argues NHS Partners Network director David Worskett.
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CommentThe government's failure to justify reform has left the public short of options
Huge strides have been taken to offer NHS patients a choice of different providers, but there is now a real chance of a backwards step under the coalition government, says management consultant Paul Corrigan.
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CommentMedia Watch: elderly care abuse revelations dominate discussion
The Daily Telegraph started the weekend with a rare morsel of good news for Andrew Lansley.
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NewsMinisters warned over blood service changes
Health ministers have been warned that people could stop giving blood if they believe private firms will profit from their goodwill.
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NewsMonitor duty to support integration of care
Monitor will be given a new duty to consider integration within the NHS and with social care, as part of the government’s changes to the Health Bill.
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NewsCameron to outline 'personal guarantees' on NHS
The prime minister will set out to reassure patients and healthcare professionals that the NHS remains safe in his hands by offering five personal “guarantees” at a keynote speech later today.
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CommentWhat the Health Bill means for continuing quality improvement
If you missed the live online webchat with Andrew Lansley last week, director of the Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care for north west London professor Derek Bell offers an insight into the health secretary’s thoughts on what the Health Bill means for research and quality improvement ...
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NewsPM to renew NHS reform drive
David Cameron will launch a fresh bid to shore up support for the health service reforms this week, as a political showdown looms over the controversial set of changes.
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NewsFawcett makes sudden exit from General Healthcare
Adrian Fawcett has suddenly stepped down from his role as chief executive of General Healthcare Group, the UK’s biggest private healthcare provider.
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NewsLansley ready to modify reforms
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has said he was ready to accept “substantial and significant” changes to his NHS reform plans.
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HSJ Local
NHS South West overrules PCT in 'any qualified provider' and ISTC conflict
FINANCE: NHS South West has overruled commissioners who were restricting use of the “any qualified provider” policy to avoid the risk of paying for work carried out by private providers.
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Comment'I'm more excited than ever about the healthcare marketplace'
Competition on everything including price is not only the most practical solution to the growing pressures facing the NHS, it is also virtually inevitable, according to the chief executive of the UK’s largest private healthcare provider.
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NewsHead of UK's biggest private provider 'more excited than ever' about NHS reforms
The head of the UK’s largest private healthcare group has insisted it would be “madness” to prohibit price competition in the NHS, and insisted he does want to compete on price with NHS hospitals.
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NewsBlood service looks set to remain in house
The head of the NHS blood service has expressed optimism it will escape part-privatisation amid suggestions the government is worried about the public backlash against private involvement in public services.
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NewsPrivate provider bosses confident of reform opportunities
Private healthcare chief executives have remained confident their firms will profit from NHS reform even as political controversy has stalled the Health Bill, a survey shows.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe opportunities 'any qualified provider' can bring to the NHS
Four former private sector leaders now working for the NHS explore how “any qualified provider” can bring the NHS’s entrepreneurial spirit to the surface.
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NewsClegg opposes NHS competition plan
Nick Clegg will oppose the idea of a regulator to promote competition in the health service - a key plank of the government’s controversial NHS reforms, according to the BBC.
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NewsExclusive: Britnell responds to 'privatisation' storm
“The vast majority” of NHS care will “always and quite rightly” be provided by “public sector organisations and paid for out of taxation”, according to the man at the heart of a storm over accusations of NHS privatisation.
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NewsCameron defends NHS reforms
The prime minister has restated the case for the government’s NHS reforms and sought to clarify the plans for competition in the NHS.
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NewsMonitor chair sets out case for competition
Monitor’s chair has set out a passionate case for increasing competition, choice and local autonomy in order to improve productivity and patient care.