All Independent providers articles – Page 46
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HSJ Local
NHS South West overrules PCT in 'any qualified provider' and ISTC conflict
FINANCE: NHS South West has overruled commissioners who were restricting use of the “any qualified provider” policy to avoid the risk of paying for work carried out by private providers.
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Comment'I'm more excited than ever about the healthcare marketplace'
Competition on everything including price is not only the most practical solution to the growing pressures facing the NHS, it is also virtually inevitable, according to the chief executive of the UK’s largest private healthcare provider.
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NewsHead of UK's biggest private provider 'more excited than ever' about NHS reforms
The head of the UK’s largest private healthcare group has insisted it would be “madness” to prohibit price competition in the NHS, and insisted he does want to compete on price with NHS hospitals.
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HSJ Local
Darlington PCT overspent on non-NHS provider
FINANCE: Darlington PCT was due to meet its overall surplus plan for 2010-11, despite recording significant over-performance on its contracts with independent sector treatment centres.
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NewsBlood service looks set to remain in house
The head of the NHS blood service has expressed optimism it will escape part-privatisation amid suggestions the government is worried about the public backlash against private involvement in public services.
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HSJ Local
Private provider opens specialist rehab hospital in Southwark
STRUCTURE: The Cambian Group has announced the opening of a new hospital in the Southwark area to rehabilitate men with mental health problems.
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HSJ Local
Wolverhampton City overspends on private providers by 88 per cent
FINANCE: NHS Wolverhampton City has overspent on private providers by the equivalent of 88 per cent of the total value of the contracts.
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NewsPrivate provider bosses confident of reform opportunities
Private healthcare chief executives have remained confident their firms will profit from NHS reform even as political controversy has stalled the Health Bill, a survey shows.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe opportunities 'any qualified provider' can bring to the NHS
Four former private sector leaders now working for the NHS explore how “any qualified provider” can bring the NHS’s entrepreneurial spirit to the surface.
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HSJ Local
NHS Surrey halted referrals to private providers over indemnity risk
COMMERCIAL: The primary care trust identified risk around lack of indemnity cover at some of its independent providers and halted referrals to them in March as a result, according to latest board papers.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy innovation in the NHS is attracting European funding programmes
EU funding for healthcare innovation is recognising NHS success in partnership working, says Jenny-Lee Spencer.
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NewsEthical procurement guide launched by BMA
The British Medical Association has unveiled a new online ethical procurement guide in a bid to improve purchasing habits within the NHS.
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NewsCo-op launches public sector advice venture
Advice on alternative ways of delivering public sector services is to be offered by the Co-operative Group, it has been announced.
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NewsExclusive: Britnell responds to 'privatisation' storm
“The vast majority” of NHS care will “always and quite rightly” be provided by “public sector organisations and paid for out of taxation”, according to the man at the heart of a storm over accusations of NHS privatisation.
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NewsCameron defends NHS reforms
The prime minister has restated the case for the government’s NHS reforms and sought to clarify the plans for competition in the NHS.
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NewsClinical networks to respond to competition fears
Clinical networks could be given a more prominent role to address fears that greater NHS competition will lead to service fragmentation and greater variations in standards of care.
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HSJ Local
Multimillion pound commissioning support tender suspended
FINANCE: A multi-million pound tender process for development support for commissioning consortia across London has been “suspended indefinitely”.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow health sector and independent sector partnerships can bring mutual benefits
A partnership between the NHS and an independent provider to deliver diagnostic services provides a case study into the opportunities - and challenges - commissioners have ahead of them. InHealth director of strategy Patrick Carter explains.
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News
General healthcare boss backs price competition
The head of the UK’s largest private healthcare group has insisted he does want to compete on price with NHS hospitals, and it would be “madness” to prohibit price competition.
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NewsNHS Blood and Transplant in price freeze pledge
NHS Blood and Transplant has pledged to freeze the price of blood for the next three years.