All Private sector articles – Page 33
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NewsVast range of consultancy and IT covered by new ACS framework
A new framework for accountable care systems and sustainability and transformation partnerships will cover a vast array of private suppliers, with the potential to shake up how support and technology are sold to the NHS.
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NewsExclusive: Private patient transport firm to be dissolved
A company that was heavily criticised over a shambolic patient transport services contract in Sussex is to be dissolved, Companies House has confirmed.
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NewsTrusts face wait until 2019 for savings from procurement shake-up
NHS trusts should not start planning for savings through the new national procurement model until 2019-20, a senior Department of Health official has said.
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HSJ LocalCCGs backtrack on £10.5m contract after legal challenge
Three clinical commissioning groups pulled out of a £10.5m fertility contract just weeks before the service was meant to start, after a legal challenge to the decision.
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NewsExclusive: Hospital boss appointed NHS Improvement chief executive
NHS Improvement has appointed the boss of a leading hospital trust as its chief executive, and will pay him a salary of £287,000, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalTrust faces £48m repair bill for PFI hospital
A trust faces a £48m repair bill to make one of its hospitals safe because of loopholes in the drafting of its private finance initiative contract, Department of Health documents reveal.
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NewsCommissioners settle with Virgin following contract dispute
A legal dispute between Virgin Care and six Surrey clinical commissioning groups has been resolved – with an apparent payment by the NHS to the company.
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NewsOut of hours care provider bought for £11m
An out of hospital care provider has been bought by a private limited company.
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NewsExclusive: PwC appoints Sir Mike Richards as senior adviser
Former Care Quality Commission chief inspector Professor Sir Mike Richards is joining consultancy firm PwC.
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HSJ LocalTrust awards £300m orthopaedics contract to US firm
A Shelford Group trust has awarded a £310m contract to an American company as part of a ‘ground breaking partnership’ for orthopaedic work.
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HSJ LocalTrust seeks £15m for naming rights of new building
A specialist hospital is looking for £15m for the naming rights of a new treatment and research centre.
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NewsDeadline extended to enter HSJ Healthcare Partnership Awards
The deadline for entering the HSJ Healthcare Partnership Awards has been extended.
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NewsClinical director loses employment tribunal over private work
A former clinical director has lost his employment tribunal case after a judge ruled he quit his trust over the impact a reconfiguration would have had on his private work, not over patient safety.
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NewsPrivate provider shuts children's unit after regulators intervene
An independent provider is to stop providing children and adolescents’ mental health services at one of its units after NHS England and the Care Quality Commission said further action was needed to safeguard the “health and welfare” of patients.
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NewsProcurement specialist sought by AHSN after bid 'win'
An academic health science network has advertised for a procurement specialist to work with a consortium it claims has won four major contracts to buy goods for the NHS.
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NewsExclusive: Airbnb style company bids to place NHS patients in spare rooms
Members of the public with no care experience are being offered up to £1,000 a month to rent spare rooms to patients after they are discharged from hospital, under an Airbnb style model to be piloted by the NHS.
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NewsRevealed: Third private children's unit closes on safety grounds
A third privately run mental health unit for children and adolescents was forced to close to new patients following safety concerns earlier this year, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalTrust lost half its radiologists in private work row
Nearly half the radiologists at a hospital trust left the provider in a row about private sector work, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: CCG resists Virgin Care demands for more money
Virgin Care has demanded more money for a controversial prime provider contract it signed with commissioners in Staffordshire last year, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: Consultancy firm avoids prosecution over use of restricted NHS data
A large consultancy firm has escaped prosecution over the use of restricted NHS data to win contracts, HSJ can reveal.