All Independent providers articles – Page 52
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NewsPrivate companies gear up to take stake in stalled community hospitals
A private firm is planning to step in to fund 28 stalled community hospital projects, HSJ has learned.
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NewsBMA should 'rethink' private sector opposition
Doctors leaders should not block private sector involvement in healthcare provision, the body representing independent providers has said.
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CommentCompetition could change the face of healthcare
Competition could change the health landscape in the same way it did with gas, electricity and telecoms
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NewsPrivate tests 'need monitoring'
Regulators should have a bigger role in monitoring private companies offering body scans, genetic testing and medicines online, a report has said.
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NewsFuture RCGP leader issues warning on 'market expansion'
The government’s planned expansion of the “any willing provider” is the biggest issue concerning GPs, according to the chair elect of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
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NewsTransforming Community Services: PCTs step closer to deciding fate of provider arms
Primary care trusts are edging closer to determining the future of their provider arms.
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NewsCompetition will 'overshadow' white paper benefits - BMA
Extending NHS competition could undermine any potential benefits arising from the white paper, the British Medical Association has warned.
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NewsPrivate company to run community hospital
A primary care trust has said it is the first in the country to appoint a private company to run a community hospital.
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NewsCosmetic surgery providers breach CQC rules
Hundreds of cosmetic surgery providers have breached Care Quality Commission rules by failing to respond to a national inquiry into patient outcomes and deaths.
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NewsNicholson steps up reform with radical savings move
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has paved the way for primary care trusts to be merged as a means to make significant savings while implementing the health white paper.
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Comment'Charities need to provide much more for the NHS'
No one in healthcare doubts that the public debt crisis has initiated a period of radical change across the NHS. The essential challenge is to become more efficient and flexible.
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NewsTrust not meeting Royal College of Surgeons' decontamination policy
Hillingdon Hospital Trust, where contaminated surgical instruments were identified last week, is not complying with the Royal College of Surgeons of England policy on decontamination.
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NewsBMA warned position on GP consortia may be illegal
GP consortia would be “unwise” and potentially acting illegally if they picked NHS organisations as providers of choice, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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CommentNHS reorganisation: don't leave the patients behind
It could be the language that seals the deal. New Labour’s mission got lost in a technocratic haze, so a white paper more comfortable with the vernacular of the voluntary sector is helping patient groups swallow the pill of another reorganisation while showing genuine enthusiasm for the changes ahead.
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NewsPCTs rein in management consultant spending
There is significant variation in the use of management consultancy this financial year by primary care trusts, information collected by HSJ reveals.
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NewsPCT and UnitedHealth end deal
NHS Northamptonshire has terminated its contract for commissioning support with UnitedHealth UK a year early.
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Comment'How is the state going to conscript GPs?'
In seeking to diminish the role of the state, the government has established a policy that attacks NHS bosses as the cause of most problems and abolishes state run primary care trusts and strategic health authorities. Instead, it proposes GP led consortia to do commissioning.
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NewsTwo bidders left in NHS hospital franchise race
The outcome of a competitive process that will see a private firm involved in the running of an NHS hospital for the first time is expected to be announced before the end of the year.
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CommentIs this the end of the road for PCTs?
The winding down of PCTs must be handled with kid gloves if disruption to services - and loss of talent - is to be avoided
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NewsLegal concern over private patient income cap
Government plans to lift the cap on foundation trust private patient income leaves it vulnerable to action under EU state aid law, private hospital operators have told HSJ.