All Independent providers articles – Page 69
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HSJ Knowledge
Social enterprise: a rich seam of ideas
Trailblazing pathfinders are using new funding to create choice and breathe new life into communities. Louise Hunt reports
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News
Controversial and divisive: Whitehall's own Big Brother
Some say the Department of Health's commercial directorate employs questionable methods, while others eulogise over its success in getting best value for patients. As a new chief executive takes over, Daloni Carlisle examines the controversies to date
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News
£35m ISTC deal scrapped
The Department of Health has pulled the plug on one of the biggest wave-two independent sector treatment centre schemes. And there are rumours that more cancellations are on the way, with the entire surgical component at risk.
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Comment
Chris Ham on integrating to compete in the NHS
'Instead of separating the roles of buyers and sellers in the NHS, the government needs to encourage closer integration between hospitals and GPs'
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News
ITC plans scrapped: NHS services are 'better value'
Plans for an independent sector treatment centre at Hemel Hempstead Hospital have been dropped because it would have been too expensive.
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Comment
Hilary Thomas on her honeymoon period
'I am like a pig in the proverbial. I am no longer part of a demoralised, cynical workforce, ground down by the inevitability of stasis and rigidity'
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HSJ Knowledge
Legal briefing: private care homes and the human rights anomaly
Under current legislation, the Human Rights Act.applies only to public authorities and those performing public functions - not.to private care homes. Corinne Slingo and Rachael Heenan explain the law and its implications
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News
Trusts face monitoring on take-up of private services
Primary care trusts in the North West risk being performance managed on the number of patients who use the private sector-operated national clinical assessment services across the patch, HSJ has learned.
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Comment
Independent treatment centre move redefines choice
'The DoH appears to be considering pushing PCTs to use independent sector treatment centres.- even to the extent of trying to steer patient choice'
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News
Will next month's ban fire up PCT stop-smoking services?
With the smoking ban just days away, the government points to huge funding boosts for smoking cessation, but is the money hitting home? Daloni Carlisle reports
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News
Legal briefing: foundation trusts test the waters on mergers and acquisitions
Following the first merger between a foundation trust and an NHS trust earlier this year,.other acquisitions are now in the pipeline. Melanie Print reports on recent developments.and asks whether private sector purchasers will be able to get involved
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News
Confederation opens doors to private sector
Private sector healthcare providers are set to become full members of the NHS Confederation as the NHS Partners Network joins the organisation, HSJ understands.
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News
Hillingdon to invite private commissioner
The first primary care trust has been given the go-ahead to invite the private sector to run part of its commissioning function.
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News
Providers brace for new regulation fee regime
NHS organisations and providers are set to be hit with regulation fees for the first time, HSJ has learned.
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News
BBC-style management could save NHS from 'political ice'
The NHS is unsustainable in its present form and should be run independently, according to a Nuffield Trust report.
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News
BUPA partnership to cut waiting times
The Department of Health has announced the details of a new partnership designed to reduce waiting times and increase choice for NHS patients in the North East.
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News
DoH issues dental commissioning guidance
The Department of Health has published guidance on strategic commissioning of conscious sedation services in primary dental care.
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News
Successful commissioning suppliers announced
The Department of Health is today due to publish the full list of suppliers eligible to provide primary care trusts' commissioning and managerial services under its framework for procuring external support for commissioners.
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News
Guy's denies pathology plans go against guidance
Guy's and St Thomas' foundation trust has denied claims by the union Unite that it is attempting to privatise its pathology services against Department of Health guidance.
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HSJ Knowledge
New ways for old
At one trust in Kent, the private sector is proving to be an essential resource in a complicated delivery mix..Colette Donnelly explains