All Competition and co-operation articles – Page 40
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Your Humble Servant on co-payments and co-operation
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Hilary Thomas on healthy competition
The right sort of competition in healthcare is a prescription for huge gains in quality and efficiency. But while this can be encouraged partly through attractive incentives, have we been too lenient in pursuing more punitive measures?
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HSJ Knowledge
Lessons learned from competition in the tender process
Bristol Community Health reflects on lessons learned during the tendering process for community health services
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Malcolm Lowe-Lauri on NHS co-operation
I'm now in the East Midlands as chief executive of University Hospitals of Leicester. UHL took a hit last year with the termination - rightly - of Pathway, its private finance initiative project.
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Choice and competition are not local reality
The important review by the Audit Commission and Healthcare Commission should lead to better recognition of the huge difficulties facing reform. There are very few people in the NHS who see choice and competition as key policies for improving services.
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NHS Alliance warning over damage caused by competition
Primary and secondary care organisations must work together to deliver the best service to patients, rather than working in 'adversarial competition', the NHS Alliance has warned.
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Medics warn competition will harm patients
The British Medical Association’s GPs committee has launched a campaign to warn the public that government moves to introduce competition into primary care will “harm patients”.
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HSJ Knowledge
Transferring assets to social enterprises - the perks and quirks
NHS organisations have a great opportunity when transferring assets to social enterprises – particularly with the scope afforded by NHS Estatecode, the guidance on managing their estate for disposals other than sales at open market value. Jane Donnison explains
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GP tendering could herald new era of competition for practices
A scheme allowing primary care trusts greater sway over GP services could be the 'tip of the iceberg' in exposing family doctors to competition.
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Johnson wants competition to prop up poor GP access
Health secretary Alan Johnson has told primary care trusts to use independent sector providers to fill gaps in services. He has also told PCTs to produce local action plans to improve poor access to GP services.
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PCT calls for GP referral competition to be shelved
Plans to have the NHS and the private sector compete for GP referrals in north Cumbria should be shelved in favour of the two working together, its primary care trust has said.
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Scottish health secretary rejects healthcare competition
Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon today told the NHS Confederation annual conference that the Scottish government rejects the idea that competition in the healthcare market was the 'route to improvement'.
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PM's unit pushes more, but 'fairer', competition
The government this week set the stage for more providers to enter the healthcare market and spelled out the future of primary care trusts.
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Competition 'won't add quality'
There is no evidence that competition will drive up quality in the NHS, an academic commissioned by the Department of Health to analyse NHS reforms has said.
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Competition hots up for 2006 HSJ Awards
Primary care trusts in Croydon and Blackpool dominate the shortlist in this year's HSJ Awards, with seven nominations between them.
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Kerr calls for co-operation
SCOTLAND Strategy author says competition is 'not the Scottish way'