All Independent providers articles – Page 67
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Scotland unveils standards for private care
Patients in Scotland using private medical services are set to benefit from new standards designed to ensure they get the highest quality of care from independent consultants and GPs.
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DoH may pull private scanning schemes
The Department of Health is reviewing plans to add private sector diagnostic capacity in five of its seven proposed schemes.
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Diagnostics firm Atos found inadequate
A private provider has been slammed in an internal Department of Health report for its management of an NHS diagnostics deal - but local trusts were also criticised.
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Boots could host 150 walk-in centres in its stores
Private companies are lining up to provide the extended access to family doctors called for by Lord Darzi in the interim report of his review into the future of the NHS.
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Money for nothing in the ISTC labour crisis
They were meant to cut waiting times for routine operations, but independent sector treatment centres continue to go under-used while primary care trusts foot the bill. Alison Moore reports
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ISTC contract shortcomings are exposed
An HSJ investigation has found that the vast majority of independent sector treatment centres did not deliver the work contracted for in 2006-07.
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DoH names 14 firms that will support PCTs
Fourteen private firms have been appointed by the Department of Health to help primary care trusts commission services, HSJ can reveal.
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Trust may change how it manages international patients
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children trust is consulting on a proposal to manage its international and private patient division through a separate charity.
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Private equity focus on healthcare
According to a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, increased private equity interest in healthcare is being driven by opportunities to consolidate and a growing elderly and affluent population.
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Bradshaw denies 'going cold' on use of private sector firms
Health minister Ben Bradshaw has told HSJ he is 'puzzled' by suggestions that Labour is reneging on use of the private sector.
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Comment
Media Watch: for and against healthcare privatisation
HSJ readers will be well aware of the three-month battle to get health secretary Alan Johnson off the fence and spelling out his policy on the private sector.This week that battle spilled off the pages of HSJ and the Financial Times and into The Times and The Guardian. A coincidence? ...
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Private company to announce 12 new hospital sites
A private healthcare company will announce sites for 12 new hospitals and five 'mini polyclinics' within the next two months.
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Private sector 'jaded' over contracts
The private sector is growing increasingly concerned that the government will row back on its plans to use independent healthcare providers to expand its NHS choice programme.
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Time to come clean on the private sector
‘The role of independent providers under Gordon Brown is one of the most opaque areas of health policy’
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Call for comparable data across care services
All health and social care providers must publish comparable data and information, Healthcare Commission chief executive Anna Walker has said.
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PCTs assured over ICATS liability
Primary care trusts in the North West will not have to pay out if the number of patients using privately operated clinical assessment services is lower than anticipated.NHS North West has moved to allay concerns that PCTs across the patch would be forced to pay for the integrated clinical assessment ...
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Agency docs are 'cheaper than locums'
Agency doctors are up to £4,500 a year cheaper than locums from the NHS's own staffing bank, claims new research.
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Agencies cost less
Agency doctors are up to£4,500 a year cheaper than locums from the NHS's own staffing bank, research claims.Independent healthcare analyst Laing and Buisson compared the cost of employing doctors through commercial recruitment agencies with hiring from NHS Professionals (NHSP), the in-house agency used by more than 60 health trusts.It found ...
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Open up primary care, says CBI
New commercial providers such as supermarkets and pharmacies should be brought in to challenge existing poor provision in primary care, according to the Confederation of British Industry.
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One year on, the message from Nicholson is that he's listening
NHS chief executive David Nicholson is in no doubt of the strength of staff's opposition to more change, or to their distaste for the idea of organisations competing against each other. Rebecca Evans quizzed him on what those staff can expect next