All Independent providers articles – Page 4
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NewsNHS invites bids for £10bn diagnostic programme
A multi-year framework agreement worth up to £10bn to provide services at around 150 planned new community diagnostic hubs is being set up by NHS England and Improvement.
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NewsHundreds of patients in hospitals whose use by the NHS is ‘hard to justify’
Hundreds of people with learning disabilities or autism are in hospitals whose care quality is rated “inadequate” or “requires improvement”, new figures reveal.
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CommentProvider collaboratives can be ‘engine room of transformation’ in ICS
Saffron Cordery shares her insights on the importance of provider collaboration and its benefits to patients, as NHS Providers launches a new project on them.
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NewsTrust buys private hospital at ‘critical time of recovery’
An acute trust has bought a local private hospital for an undisclosed sum, saying it will safeguard its NHS work and continue to serve the private market.
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NewsTwo major private providers to the NHS to merge, expecting 'sustained demand'
One of the largest private providers of NHS acute care looks set to buy another, and has declared that the unprecedented NHS elective waiting list will “create sustained demand” for their services.
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HSJ LocalPrivate provider fined after failing to disclose treatment errors
A private healthcare provider has been ordered to pay £20,000 after failing to disclose errors in the treatment of patients under the care of a surgeon.
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HSJ PartnersHow data will underpin elective care recovery
It is imperative that we think now about how we prioritise our patients and deliver timely care to maximise safety and minimise risk, writes Doug Treanor
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NewsPrivate provider launches hundreds of nursing apprenticeship places
A private hospital group has launched a new nursing degree apprenticeship programme for up to 270 students.
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NewsDozens of patients seen by independent provider suffered ‘moderate or severe’ harm
Nearly 30 patients suffered severe or moderate harm due to quality issues with ultrasounds carried out by an independent provider, a review has found.
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NewsNHS accused of pushing social enterprise out due to ‘integration’
NHS officials are already pushing social enterprise providers out of the service because of the government’s legislative proposals, the sector has warned Matt Hancock.
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NewsPrivate providers fear unfair treatment under new NHS financial regime
Private providers have warned they face unfair treatment under new financial rules unless the NHS distributes additional funding for covid in an ‘equitable and transparent’ way.
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NewsCQC to expand inspection programme from April
More Care Quality Commission inspections will take place from next month as pressures from covid-19 continue to ease.
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NewsTroubled private provider employs NHS Assembly co-chair as adviser
The co-chair of the NHS Assembly, which advises national commissioners, has been appointed to a new role with a high-profile private provider.
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Expert BriefingLondon Eye: What I’d want to know if I was an MP
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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HSJ Local‘Elements of abuse’ witnessed at ‘inadequate’ private hospital
The Care Quality Commission has rated a Suffolk mental health hospital ‘inadequate’ after finding some interactions between patients and staff ‘demonstrated elements of abuse’.
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NewsRoyal College boss accuses major private provider of being ‘extremely uncooperative’ over training
A royal college lead has accused parts of the private sector — naming Spire Healthcare in particular — of being “extremely uncooperative” in facilitating the training of young clinicians.
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HSJ PartnersMaking referral pathways easier to use
David Ezra suggests digital solutions can improve the outpatient referral process, particularly by enabling better use of complex referral pathways
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News‘Catastrophic’ threat to cancer performance at England’s third largest hospital trust
Cancer services at a large hospital trust have been at ‘catastrophic’ risk of being overwhelmed, after two of its hospital sites had to suspend life-saving cancer surgeries in the last month due to covid-19.
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NewsExclusive: NHS commandeers private hospitals in attempt to recover cancer surgery
‘Surge’ clauses allowing the NHS to again take over private hospitals — as it did in the spring — have been triggered in some areas, HSJ has learned.
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NewsAmbulance crews running out of oxygen amid supply problems
Ambulance crews in parts of the country hard hit by covid-19 have run very low on oxygen — or out of it entirely — on several occasions in the last month, HSJ has learnt.