All Independent providers articles – Page 64
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HSJ Knowledge
Why NHS must keep an eye on the private sector
The greatest benefit the private sector can bring to the nation is not to control the tax burden but to make NHS users demand better services
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News
PCTs not ready to regulate choice, says Darzi adviser
Primary care trusts are not yet up to the job of policing choice under integrated healthcare models, a senior health adviser has warned delegates at the NHS Confederation conference.
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News
PROMs needed for patient choice, says BUPA
BUPA today calls for all private hospitals to provide commissioners with patient-reported outcome measures.
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News
DH warns Treasury of chaos after accountancy rule changes
Department of Health officials warned the Treasury that accountancy rule changes affecting the private finance initiative would ‘throw the NHS system into chaos’.
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News
Failed, fired but not yet fixed: the new realities
Shape up or we'll find someone else to do your job - that's the new, tough message from the Department of Health. But how attractive will the 'someone else' role prove to be, asks Charlotte Santry
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News
PCTs under fire on new GP scheme
Independent providers have slammed primary care trusts' attempts to procure new services under a flagship Department of Health scheme. They say the equitable access to primary medical care scheme is 'appallingly poorly managed'.
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News
Profits boost for Boots
Pharmacy and health and beauty group Alliance Boots has announced a 20 per cent increase in profits and a 4.8 per cent increase in revenue.
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HSJ Knowledge
Service planning: shock of the new
Sherford is a new town being built near Plymouth and plans for its health services promise to test support for new models - just don't mention polyclinics. Lynn Eaton takes a look
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Comment
Michael White on private vs public
The detail I am most likely to remember from this week's events is the revelation that when Harold Macmillan was chancellor in 1956 he suppressed evidence of the link between cancer and smoking.
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News
Failing managers to be axed under new NHS regime
Managers at failing trusts will be replaced with teams from the private sector or other NHS organisations under a tough new performance regime.
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HSJ Knowledge
Assessing independent sector performance
A broad survey of data from independent healthcare providers across the UK has revealed the sector's staffing levels, bed spaces and hospital-acquired infection rates. Sally Taber examines the results
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News
Commercial directorate's future in the air
The future of the Department of Health's commercial directorate is in doubt following the resignation of its director general Channing Wheeler.
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HSJ Knowledge
Performance assessment: the management battle
There is a clear link between good management and better healthcare, but NHS managers' performance lags behind the private sector
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News
Suppliers could challenge PCTs under European rules
An EU directive due to be implemented in the UK next year could leave primary care trust contracts open to challenge through the courts.
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News
Virgin Healthcare unveils GP contract details
Virgin Healthcare has revealed detailed plans for its new GP services, which will involve leaving family doctors on standard contracts but taking control of their non-clinical work.
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Leader
King's puts smart money on private sector
The decision of King's College Hospital foundation trust to appoint corporate big-hitter Tim Smart to its top job will provide a fascinating trial for private sector management techniques at the highest levels of the NHS.
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News
Channing Wheeler's plans for market end rumours of commercial break
Reports of the demise of private sector involvement in the NHS last year were premature, as Department of Health commercial director Channing Wheeler is developing the tools to allow local managers to turn the service into a market. He talks to Sally Gainsbury
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News
Community services tariff opens way to private provision
The Department of Health is to develop a tariff for community services - paving the way for foundation trusts and the private sector to offer services until now provided by primary care trusts.
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Leader
Independent sector sceptics must be won over
This week's interview with Channing Wheeler, commercial director general at the Department of Health, highlights the complexity of the relationship between the NHS and the independent sector.
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News
GPs paid £20m for sickness and maternity cover
GP practices in England were paid more than £20m last year for locums to cover sickness and maternity leave in their practices, HSJ has learnt.