All Competition and co-operation articles – Page 26
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NewsCCP backs commissioners in care home procurement row
The Cooperation and Competition Panel has ruled against care home associations in two regions after they claimed procurement rules and prices for continuing healthcare were too low.
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News'Huge opportunities' for private provision under reform - Howe
The NHS reforms present “huge opportunities” for the private sector, a health minister has said.
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Commercial-only finance plans for FTs scaled back
The government has pulled back from plans to stimulate a market for private sector lending to foundation trusts, under which they would have been cut off from all finance other than commercial loans.
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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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NewsFirst large hospital merger approved by CCP
A plan to shake up hospital care in Hampshire has become the first merger of large acute trusts to pass a key test designed to enshrine competition in the NHS.
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NewsLansley is taking us back to medical domination - Lord Crisp
Health secretary Andrew Lansley is taking the NHS back to a “medical model” dominated by doctors rather than moving to empower patients and communities, according to former NHS chief executive Lord Nigel Crisp.
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NewsNHS-university partnerships can 'resist' competition, says chair
NHS providers which have formed partnerships with universities can better “resist” competition from the independent sector, according to a senior clinician.
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CommentMichael White: the strange landscape of US healthcare
Where else but the US should this column spend a few days as punishment for not understanding how inappropriate a mechanism competition is for driving efficiency and innovation in healthcare?
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Avon and Wiltshire experiments with new forms of independence
STRUCTURE: Swindon and Wiltshire’s improving access to psychological therapies service (IAPT) is looking to become more independent from Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Trust.
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CCP review of Basingstoke merger delayed
The Co-pperation and Competition Panel have extended the first phase of their review of Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust’s planned takeover of Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare.
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NewsLansley condemns commissioners as 'cynical' over choice restrictions
Health secretary Andrew Lansley today said primary care trusts “game the system” to “delay treatment”, in response to the Co-operation and Competition Panel’s investigation of choice in elective care.
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NewsPatient operations deliberately delayed, CCP claims
Patients are being forced to wait for treatment in the hope they will remove themselves from waiting lists by either going private or dying, a report has suggested.
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NewsCommissioners 'excessively constraining' patient choice
Commissioners are restricting patient choice and choking competition in routine elective care, the Cooperation and Competition Panel has found.
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NewsChoice plans are 'enforced competition', say GPs
The government’s plans to extend choice in the NHS amount to “enforced competition”, GPs have said, as they call for clarity on changes to the Health Bill.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy EU competition law is still a central issue in healthcare reform
Since its publication, and despite ongoing revisions, the debate as to whether the Health Bill opens the NHS up to European competition law to a previously unseen level remains a “live” issue. Beachcroft partner Robert McGough and BDO adviser Dr Rupert Dunbar-Rees discuss.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to overcome the barriers facing public to private sector transitions
Despite a generally healthy pool for healthcare talent, the success of NHS managers making the transition to the private sector is concerning. A change in philosophy, says Rob McCargow, is needed to do something abut this success rate.
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NewsGovernment launches provider choice for community and mental health services
Commissioners have been told to offer a choice of “any qualified provider” for some community and mental health services from next year. It is part of government plans which amount to a slowing down of the extension of choice in the NHS.
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CommentMichael White: political meltdown?
Meltdown is an overworked media cliché which I try to avoid. But recent developments look a bit serious for the coalition.
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NewsLabour attacks public services reform plan
The government’s long-awaited blueprint for public service reform has been dismissed by Labour as containing “few new ideas and even fewer new proposals”.
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CommentPower to the patients: promised improvements to patient choice need backing up
A change in what “choice” represents in policy has great potential for patients. Now that change needs to be backed with a firm will to implement it, writes Health Foundation chief executive Stephen Thornton.