All Independent providers articles – Page 44
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News
Troubled Southern Cross to close
Care home operator Southern Cross has confirmed that it is to close down after the landlords of its properties abandoned the company.
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News
AQP 'bastardised', says Care UK boss
A director of one of England’s leading private sector health care providers has expressed doubts over the government’s “any qualified provider” policy, describing it as “bastardised”.
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HSJ Knowledge
Innovative approaches to health priorities through NHS and industry collaboration
Partnering with the pharmaceutical industry and bringing together a diverse group of experts is a novel but valuable approach for the NHS to address healthcare challenges, write Robyn Hudson and colleagues.
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HSJ Local
Hertfordshire PCT pledges £1.7m to delayed centre
FINANCE: NHS Hertfordshire has committed £1.7m of non recurrent funding on “ramp up costs” for a delayed treatment centre at the Lister Hospital
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HSJ Local
Leicester City signs contract with The Practice
COMMERCIAL: NHS Leicester City has signed a contract with The Practice, a nationwide a healthcare provider, to operate the GP surgery at Beaumont Leys Health Centre.
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HSJ Local
Sussex Partnership faced with fallout from closure of private unit
STRUCTURE: The foundation trust is relocating patients from a local independent hospital which is set to close in September.
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News
Health Bill: competition changes may not be ‘substantive’
The changes to Monitor’s role brought about by amendments to the Health Bill may not be “substantive”, lawyers have warned.
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News
Health Bill: government publishes 181 amendments
The government has tabled 181 amendments to the Health Bill following a review of health secretary Andrew Lansley’s controversial original proposals.
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Blogs
Crime doesn't pay... but it might get you free healthcare
It sounds like a joke or a wind-up, but losing private healthcare is no laughing matter.
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HSJ Knowledge
Why commissioners need to harness transformational technologies for NHS services
If the full potential of GP commissioning is to be realised, commissioners must understand, embrace and harness transformational technologies at the earliest opportunity, says NHS North West director of commissioning development Joe Rafferty.
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HSJ Knowledge
Why competition still has its place in NHS
Competition in the NHS is nothing new - and the more measured approach outlined in the Health Bill’s amendments this week will better preparing the health service to fully function with competition working alongside integration, argues Wragge and Co partner Simon Taylor.
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News
New service for private patients launched
Patients who go private will be able to access a new one-stop service designed to help them get the best care.
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News
Royal colleges to be enlisted to identify procedures at risk of 'cherry picking'
The Department of Health command paper on choice, competition and a failure regime for trusts sets out some specifics but leaves many questions unanswered.
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News
Circle floats on stock market
The independent healthcare company set to run Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust as the first UK hospital franchise was floated last week on AIM, a part of the London Stock Exchange.
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Comment
Provider trouble brewing in the East
A number of concerns were raised in a report from the East of England provider development board last month.
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HSJ Local
Royal Cornwall Hospitals signs pharmacy deal with Lloyds
Commercial: Lloydspharmacy has been awarded a contract to provide dispensing services for outpatients of the Royal Cornwall Hospital.
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News
GP-private healthcare link raises conflict of interest concerns
The government’s reforms have raised fears about the risk of financial conflicts of interest after a survey suggested that large numbers of the doctors on new commissioning boards will have links with private healthcare companies.
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News
Quality premiums and Any Qualified Provider supported by Future Forum
Quality premiums for commissioning consortia and the “any qualified provider” policy both escaped censure or proposed modification in the Future Forum’s report.
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News
Private sector would refuse to recruit from NHS if forced to pay training costs - Forum
The government has been urged to reconsider proposals that would force the private sector to contribute to NHS training costs amid fears it will result in firms recruiting from overseas.
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HSJ Local
Doctors urge Cameron to speed Hinchingbrooke takeover
STRUCTURE: Consultants and GPs have written to the Prime Minister asking him to unblock the process that has seen the private franchise management of the hospital delayed.