All Independent providers articles – Page 23
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HSJ LocalUpdated: ‘Unique’ consortium wins Birmingham mental health contract
COMMERCIAL: A consortium involving public, private and voluntary sector providers has been appointed preferred bidder for a £124m contract to deliver joined up mental health services to children, adolescents and young adults in Birmingham.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Memo reveals trust forced to 'scale back' specialist service
Emergency patients at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust who are in need of specialist dermatology treatment could be forced to wait more than a day to be seen, HSJ has learned.
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NewsExclusive: 'Monopoly' fears over £350m scans contract
The decision to award a 10 year contract covering more than half of England’s PET-CT imaging service to a single company has created a ‘monopoly’ that could damage NHS interests, HSJ has been told.
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NewsHinchingbrooke £7.2m in the red
Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust posted a £7.2m deficit for the first eight months of the 2014-15 financial year, according to figures published last week which give the fullest indication to date of the hospital’s financial problems.
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NewsLabour promises to shield voluntary sector from preferred provider plans
Labour has pledged to shield voluntary sector organisations from the effects of its “NHS preferred provider” policies by giving not-for-profit providers “longer and more stable arrangements”.
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NewsExclusive: Independent sector 'could provide 50 per cent of community services by 2020'
Independent sector providers could take a 50 per cent share of the market for NHS community services by the end of the decade, according to market analyst LaingBuisson.
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HSJ LocalNHS consortium challenges NHS England £80m contract decision
A consortium of NHS trusts have lodged a formal challenge against NHS England following its decision to hand a 10 year, £80m contract for PET CT scanning to a private company.
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NewsDirector behind Hinchingbrooke deal defends decision
The former strategic health authority director who led the franchising of Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust has defended the decision.
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NewsDalton: Hinchingbrooke collapse does not scupper franchise model
The author of a major government review on provider sector reform has rejected the suggestion that the collapse of the Hinchingbrooke contract should spell the end of franchising in the NHS.
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NewsUpdated: Hinchingbrooke in special measures after care judged 'inadequate'
Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust has been placed in special measures after the Care Quality Commission rated it ‘inadequate’ on the questions of whether it is caring, safe and well led.
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NewsTimeline: How HSJ has covered Circle at Hinchingbrooke
For those catching up on the background to the Hinchingbrooke story, here’s a quick guide through HSJ’s coverage of Circle’s involvement over the past four years
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NewsUpdated: Circle to withdraw from Hinchingbrooke contract
Circle Partnership has announced plans to pull out of its 10 year contract to run Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust, the UK’s only privately managed NHS district general hospital.
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NewsUpdated: NHS England to fund 'significant volume' of private sector care
NHS England has agreed to commission a ‘significant range and volume’ of planned care from private hospitals over the coming months, following the failure of a national push to clear NHS waiting list backlogs
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NewsExclusive: Service hit by staff 'exodus' after CCG transfers contract to Circle
One of the biggest teaching trusts in England has been forced to axe its once renowned acute dermatology service following an “exodus” of medical consultants following the transfer of their contract to private provider Circle.
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NewsTrusts’ spending on private healthcare providers rockets by 25pc
Foundation trusts increased the sums they spent buying healthcare from non-NHS bodies by almost 25 per cent last year
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NewsStaffordshire CCG to hand £280m contract to private sector
Two private firms have been shortlisted for a £280m ‘prime provider’ contract in East Staffordshire in a competition that has seen all NHS bidders squeezed out of the race.
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LeaderPrime contractor model looks old before its time
Its bluntness makes it appear outdated already
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HSJ LocalBedford refuses to sign Circle MSK contract
An NHS hospital has pledged to compete with Circle Partnership, the private provider appointed to run Bedfordshire’s £120m integrated musculoskeletal service, after refusing to become its subcontractor, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: Private provider admits 'human error' in NHS eye procedures
NHS patients who underwent eye surgery at a private hospital suffered complications because of an overdose of an antibiotic used during their cataract procedures, an investigation has found.