All Private patient income cap articles – Page 4
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CommentPrivate income avenues being explored in the South West
Five foundation trusts in the overcrowded provider landscape of east Dorset and west Somerset are all looking to drum up some more private business.
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Trust plans to realise mortuary income potential
FINANCE: Salisbury Foundation Trust is planning to boost income from its mortuary, its fertility service and through treating more private patients.
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FT plans 20 per cent growth in private patient income
FINANCE: The Royal Marsden Foundation Trust, Britain’s biggest specialist cancer trust, is planning to increase its private patient income by 20 per cent this year.
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OFT issues warning on private providers' sweetener payments to consultants
The incentives used by private healthcare providers to attract consultants to their hospitals may be driving up prices without increasing quality, the Office for Fair Trading has warned.
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Poole looks to boost private patient income
FINANCE: Poole Hospital Foundation Trust plans to increase income by £2.6m over the next three years, partly through increasing private patient income.
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Yeovil on the hunt for a commercial partner
COMMERCIAL: Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust is seeking a commercial partner in order to maximise private patient income.
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HSJ Local
Channel islands shift cardiac business from London specialist hospital to Southampton
COMMERCIAL: The health authorities of Guernsey and Alderney are moving roughly £1.3m of specialist treatment from a London teaching hospital to a trust on the south coast.
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King's College Hospital anticipates £4m in overseas work and commercial projects
COMMCERCIAL: The south London acute trusts anticipates making £1m in 2012-13 and a further £3m in 2013-14, according to a strategy document submitted to Monitor.
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HSJ Local
Two foundation trusts breach private patient cap
FINANCE: Two trusts breached their private patient caps in 2010-11, Monitor’s annual report on foundation trusts has revealed.
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HSJ Local
King's College aims for £13m in private income
FINANCE: King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust is aiming to make £13m in private income during 2011-12, according to board papers.
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HSJ Local
Spending on private providers blows NHS Oldham’s acute budget by £5m
FINANCE: The primary care trust’s acute care budget was blown by £5.5m in 2010-11, due mainly to overspending on private providers.
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HSJ Local
King's College Hospital plans 'fully established' commercial directorate in 2013-14
COMMERCIAL: The south London acute trust set out its vision for attracting private patients in its three year plan, which has been sent to Monitor.
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West Middlesex University Hospital proposes to open private patient wing
STRUCTURE; The financially challenged acute trust near Heathrow, west London, has placed an advert in the Official Journal of the European Union.
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HSJ Local
Chelsea and Westminster risked breaching private income cap
FINANCE: Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust narrowly missed breaching its 3.5 per cent private income cap due to a technical change in how the sum is calculated
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Moorfields abandons Abu Dhabi expansion plan
COMMERCIAL: Moorfields Eye Hospital Foundation Trust has abandoned a plan to expand its Dubai operation into Abu Dhabi.
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Moorfields Eye Hospital Foundation Trust £1.9m ahead of budget for the month
FINANCE: The specialist trust was predicting a deficit of £400,000 for January but instead saw a surplus of £1.5m.
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NewsPrivate patient income cap ditching leaves FTs open to legal challenge
Government plans to lift the cap on private income for foundation trusts pose a “high” risk of NHS hospitals being challenged under state aid rules, lawyers say.
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NewsMonitor issues list of lessons to be learnt from failed FT bids as list of planned mergers grows
Monitor has published a list of lessons to be learnt from recent failed foundation trust applications.
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NewsEU paves way for overseas treatment of rare diseases
Primary care trusts will come under pressure to pay for patients to go abroad for treatments not provided by the NHS, under measures approved by the European parliament’s public health committee.
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NewsPsychiatrists back removal of private income cap for FTs
Removing the cap on private income for foundation trusts would release those in mental health to be more innovative and entrepreneurial, according to the Royal College of Psychiatrists.