All Independent providers articles – Page 59
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NewsMonitor hits back at PFI 'cancellation' claim
The foundation trust regulator Monitor has hit back at allegations reported in last week’s HSJ that it has “effectively cancelled” the remaining NHS private finance initiative contracts.
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NewsBrown to announce private cash for NHS cancer treatment delays
The significant expansion of private sector involvement in health due to be unveiled by Gordon Brown this week will see cancer patients who face long waits in the NHS given cash to go private.
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NewsGovernment misses own invoice payment target
The government’s target to pay invoices within 10 days is being missed by its own departments and agencies.
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NHS Counter Fraud Service slated after trial collapses
The former chief executive of a private hospital group has criticised the NHS Counter Fraud Service and police after his trial for fraud collapsed.
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NewsMark Britnell move 'will not hit world class commissioning'
The Department of Health is downplaying Mark Britnell’s departure for the private sector, insisting the world class commissioning programme will not flounder without him.
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NewsAvoid tendering pitfalls, warns NHS competition panel director
Co-operation and competition panel director Andrew Taylor has revealed some of the basic mistakes primary care trusts have made when tendering out services.
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NewsTake on more risk to increase share of health market, private companies told
Private companies must take on more risk if they want to gain a bigger share of the primary and community care market.
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NewsBurnham backs review of private patient income cap
Health secretary Andy Burnham has backed a review of the limit on foundation trusts’ income from private patients.
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NewsConcerns NHS could be challenged under EU competition law
NHS contracts with private providers could fall foul of EU competition rules if they allow excessive profits, a briefing paper from the NHS Confederation warns.
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NewsManagement consultant costs to be laid bare
The daily rates of a management consultants employed by NHS organisations could soon be published.
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NewsSouthampton City PCT attempts to mitigate £3.6m losses
Southampton City primary care trust is renegotiating arrangements with its local Care UK treatment centre contract in a bid to stop the PCT losing up to £3.6m a year.
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MPs call for NHS consultancy costs to be made public
The daily rates of external management consultants employed by NHS organisations could soon be published, if the demands of the Commons health committee are met.
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Michael White on the big split over ISTCs
Andrew Lansley has been out and about attacking Alan Johnson’s record as a failed health secretary (“the postman who hasn’t delivered”) on the grounds he has not closed the health gap between rich and poor - and also let the NHS’s Blairite choice agenda atrophy.
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NewsDoctors claim NHS bears the cost of private care complications
Private patients are being re-defined as “NHS” patients to pass the costs of complications to the NHS, the chair of the British Medical Association’s consultants committee has claimed.
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NHS cash subsidises private patient care
Private patients are getting hundreds of thousands of pounds of treatment subsidised by the NHS each year, an HSJ investigation reveals.
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NewsNHS Confederation warns primary care trusts to tender with caution
Commissioners will need to be robust about which services they put out to tender, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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Alan Johnson seeks to rein in co-operation and competition panel
Health secretary Alan Johnson has said he is concerned investigations by the co-operation and competition panel could slow down trust mergers required by the Department of Health’s failure regime.
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Commerce units will boost NHS market activity
A £20m network of around 20 commercial support units will be set up to boost primary care trusts’ efforts to stimulate the market.
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NewsPilot will boost patient role in GP service plans
Private companies will tell GPs how to make their services more customer friendly under plans to boost patients’ role in shaping primary care services.
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NewsNHS IT programme given seven months to improve
The Department of Health has given the NHS IT programme seven months to make “significant progress” in installing working IT systems in hospitals.