All Independent providers articles – Page 38
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HSJ LocalCircle faces £10m hole in Hinchingbrooke budget
FINANCE: Circle will have to cut costs at Hinchingbrooke Healthcare Trust by 10 per cent if it is to break even next year, it has emerged.
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North West PTS contracts to be opened up
COMMERCIAL: Contracts for patient transport services in the North West are to be procured on a primary care trust cluster-basis after warnings the existing regional arrangement may break competition rules.
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South London Healthcare trust to spend £2.4m on private treatment
FINANCE: The south east London acute trust is predicting spending £2.4m on treating orthopaedics and bariatrics patients at private facilities.
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News'Hinchingbrooke model' still an option for struggling trust
A financially challenged hospital is considering partnering with the private sector, despite government claims that no NHS trusts planned to follow the “Hinchingbrooke model”.
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NewsPrivate providers attack Monitor failure regime
Private mental health firms are lobbying for deep changes to Monitor’s proposed failure regime, claiming rules putting “patients ahead of creditors” will prevent them from borrowing.
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NewsLIFT companies seek NHS Property Services links
Companies set up under a public-private partnership scheme are positioning themselves to become key partners to NHS Property Services, the firm formed to manage health service assets.
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HSJ KnowledgeCould Hinchingbrooke set a benchmark for health organisation ownership?
Circle’s takeover of Hinchingbrooke hospital has opened a debate on hospital ownership and management, which could, Kevin Jacquiss says, inspire the government to look at new ideas to secure a sustainable future for health service organisations.
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NewsHinchingbrooke plans set out by new owners
The private provider at the first NHS hospital to be taken over by a private sector firm have set out their vision to turn around its fortunes.
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New Assura Medical practice in Calderdale
COMMERCIAL: A new GP practice, run by Assura Leeds LLP, has opened in Calderdale.
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Greater Manchester reduces underuse of private sector contracts
FINANCE: Primary care trusts in the cluster lost £2.6m through underuse of contracted independent sector providers in the first eight months of this year, compared with £4.5m for the same period in 2010-11, its latest finance report shows.
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LeaderA weak private sector is bad news for the NHS
The future for the private hospital sector is not a pretty one, as our exclusive analysis of Laing and Buisson’s authoritative annual market review reveals, and this conclusion prompts two questions.
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NewsPrivate patient income continues to fall
The NHS’s real terms income from treating private patients declined in 2010 for the fifth year, according to market analysts Laing and Buisson.
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NewsExclusive: private acute providers warned over slowing NHS-funded work
The UK’s private acute healthcare industry shrank in 2010 for the first time in at least three decades despite continued growth in its NHS-funded business, according to a new report by analysts Laing and Buisson.
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NewsHealth secretary formally announces NHS property company
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has formally announced details of the government-owned firm that will take over ownership and management of much of the NHS estate.
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Bath and North East Somerset under-using ISTC contract
FINANCE: NHS Bath and North East Somerset is under using its contract with independent provider UK Specialist Hospitals by £243,000.
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£500m private sector community services takeover 'stalls'
COMMERCIAL: The transfer of a £500m contract for community services to the private sector has been delayed due to complications over primary care trust estate.
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CommentNoel Plumridge: has the sparkle gone from social enterprise?
Social enterprises are starting to find that the odds are not in their favour in a cut-throat market, which could make for a bleak picture in a decade’s time, says Noel Plumridge.
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NewsLansley outlines further 'steps' to address breast implants concerns
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has set out a “series of steps” in response to continued concerns over the safety risks posed by French Poly Implant Prostheses (PiP) breast implants.
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CommentSally Gainsbury: private sector sweats on essential sensibility
Back when the white paper was first published, we had our first flurry of excitement that the new Monitor would get to tinker under the bonnet of private sector providers – all in the interests of fair regulation and ensuring continuity of services.
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HSJ KnowledgeCan CCGs learn to integrate mental health services from a Californian healthcare model?
Emerging clinical commissioning groups could learn a lot from the way mental health services are being incorporated into an overall model of healthcare by independent practice associations in California, say Beacon Health Strategies colleagues Dr Emma Stanton and Brian Wheelan.