All Private patient income cap articles – Page 3
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HSJ Local
North Bristol Trust plans private patient unit
North Bristol Trust is seeking a commercial partner to build and run a stand-alone private patient unit next to its new private finance initiative hospital.
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NewsSNP claim independence will safeguard NHS
Scotland’s National Health Service can only be “fully guaranteed” by independence, deputy first minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.
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NewsHealth Bill: government limits FTs and private income
The government has said it will change the Health Bill to clarify and extend Monitor’s compliance powers over foundation trusts, and require governors to approve private patient income.
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HSJ Local
Great Western signs up with Swindon Town FC
COMMERCIAL: Great Western Hospitals Foundation Trust has won a contract to provide MRI scans to Swindon Town Football Club.
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News
London FT to replace private patients' PIP implants free of charge
Patients treated privately with PIP breast implants at a London foundation trust will have them removed and replaced free of charge if necessary, it has been confirmed.
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NewsPrivate patient income continues to fall
The NHS’s real terms income from treating private patients declined in 2010 for the fifth year, according to market analysts Laing and Buisson.
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CommentMichael White: will Lansley's Healh Bill survive the 'big push'?
Do you remember the Battle of the Bulge? No, nor do I. It was the last German counter-offensive on the western front in World War II, a thrust through the Ardennes at Christmas 1944 that hoped to push British and American armies back into the Channel.
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NewsExclusive: private acute providers warned over slowing NHS-funded work
The UK’s private acute healthcare industry shrank in 2010 for the first time in at least three decades despite continued growth in its NHS-funded business, according to a new report by analysts Laing and Buisson.
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NewsLabour: NHS patients will face 'worse deal'
NHS patients will get a “much worse deal” if the government’s health service reforms see NHS hospitals free to earn up to half of their income from private work, Labour has warned.
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NewsAmended private patient income cap 'will have little impact'
A government proposal to cap the amount of private income foundation trusts can earn at 49 per cent will have little practical impact on the health reforms, experts have claimed.
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NewsNHS private income cap 'to be lifted'
Health service reforms will pave the way for NHS hospitals to earn up to half of their income from private work, it has been reported.
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NewsPrivate sector faces referral to Competition Commission
The NHS reforms would have “blown up in people’s faces” without last week’s decision to refer the private healthcare market to the Competition Commission, the boss of Circle has told HSJ.
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CommentAcademic health science partnerships take shape in London
Lord Darzi’s phoenix-from-the-ashes academic health science partnership Imperial Health Partners has got off to a flying start, but one name was conspicuous by its absence on its list of potential partners.
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HSJ Local
Basildon and Thurrock FT in talks to stay within private income cap
COMMERCIAL: Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals is renegotiating a contract with a private provider to ensure the FT does not breach its private patient income cap, as it did last year.
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HSJ Local
Private patient work gives further boost to Christie’s finances
COMMERCIAL: The specialist foundation, The Christie, was reporting a half-year surplus of £2.7m, which was £681,000 better than it had planned for the first six months of 2011-12.
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NewsHealth Bill: Lords to debate hospital failure, integration and commissioning bonus
Members of the House of Lords have tabled dozens of amendments to the Health Bill which would bring about significant policy change if passed.
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HSJ Local
The Christie consults on potential increase in private patient work
COMMERCIAL: The foundation has launched a consultation asking the public whether it should do more private patient work to help fund its NHS services.
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HSJ Local
Hospital says Greek private patients owe £1.8m
FINANCE: King’s College Hospital reported that private patients from the financially-stricken state owe it £1.8m.
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HSJ Local
Guy's breaching private patient cap after twins procedure
FINANCE: The south London foundation trust reported that it had breached its private patient cap of 3.04 per cent this year.