All Independent providers articles – Page 38
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Private sector competition 'leaves NHS with more costly patients'
Competition between NHS and private providers has seen the NHS left with the more expensive and complex cases, new research has claimed.
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NewsCommissioning support services to get private sector guidance
The Department of Health has invited private sector consultancies to brief NHS commissioning support services at a series of regular national “learning network” events, HSJ has learned.
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NewsTrust backtracks on umbilical blood collections
A foundation trust has seemingly backtracked on a scheme to offer mothers a private facility to collect blood from their baby’s umbilical cord.
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NewsSurgery uses patient list to market private tests
A GP practice has used its patient list to distribute marketing material for a company offering private screening for heart conditions and stroke risk.
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HSJ Local
Rise in 'digestive procedures' prompts overspend on private contract
FINANCE: NHS Swindon is forecasting an overspend on its contract with the private provider BMI.
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HSJ Local
EMAS challenges PTS procurement process
COMMERCIAL: East Midlands Ambulance Service has challenged the procurement process behind the award of contracts for patient transport services after it lost out on all of the contracts in the region.
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CommentDoes the cost of private healthcare exceed the benefit?
There is little doubt that private sector involvement in the NHS can bring benefits to the service, but, argues Ian Greener, the costs of the NHS supporting private healthcare could outweigh the return.
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News
London FT to replace private patients' PIP implants free of charge
Patients treated privately with PIP breast implants at a London foundation trust will have them removed and replaced free of charge if necessary, it has been confirmed.
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HSJ Local
Newham hospice awarded national accreditation
PERFORMANCE: Richard House Children’s Hospice, in Newham, has been awarded a national accreditation for service standards.
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HSJ Local
PCT in court over community services transfer
COMMERCIAL: A primary care trust’s claim it could not transfer its provider arm to an NHS organisation is “inaccurate and flawed”, the High Court has heard.
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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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HSJ Local
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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HSJ Local
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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HSJ Local
New Assura Medical practice in Calderdale
COMMERCIAL: A new GP practice, run by Assura Leeds LLP, has opened in Calderdale.
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HSJ Local
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.