All NHS co-operation and competition panel articles – Page 8
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LeaderProspect of serious competition rattles foundation trusts
As the era of competition starts to take hold in the NHS, foundation trusts are getting jittery.
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NewsCompetition panel launches inquiry into consultants' private work
The NHS co-operation and competition panel is expected to launch its first inquiry this week into NHS consultants working for hospitals other than their main employer during their spare time.
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Comment
Richard Lewis and Matthew Bell on healthcare market stimulation
Commissioners will have to sharpen their understanding of healthcare markets and see carefully managed competition as a tool that works for the benefit of patients
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News
Leading NHS chiefs call for London trust mergers
Competition and collaboration rules should not stand in the way of hospital trust mergers and acquisitions, two major acute trust chief executives have argued.
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News
Talk to me: PCTs hone their haggling skills
World class commissioning demands new skills of primary care trusts – not least managing the market to get the highest quality and best value care for patients. Helen Crump finds out how they are coping
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News
Chris Ham slams anti-competition guidance
Agreements between hospitals over the provision of specialist services could be seen as a criminal breach of competition rules.
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Leader
Confed chief's challenge is to get network choir singing in harmony
In this week's HSJ new NHS Confederation chief executive Steve Barnett spells out his vision for the organisation.
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Comment
Michael White on NHS co-operation and competition
Following last week’s HSJ article on the NHS’s Co-operation and Competition Panel I have lifted a few stones.
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News
Huge bill looms for patient choice information
The health service faces a bill of millions for reminding patients of their legal right to choose their own secondary care provider under the terms of the NHS constitution.
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News
Panel to judge on NHS competition rows
The Co-operation and Competition Panel opens for business tomorrow and both private and NHS organisations are preparing lists of the issues they want it to address in its first year.
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Leader
Spectre of more competition haunts NHS
A new beast is unleashed onto the healthcare world tomorrow which could change the landscape on everything from pensions to private practice.
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Comment
Patient choice: Apple's way will bear most fruit
Patient choice means NHS organisations must act more like businesses to win customers. The best will look to companies like Apple, which build their services from the 'outside in'
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News
Patient choice at risk from healthcare monopolies
Primary care trusts may need to find new methods of protecting patient choice if integrated care organisations become monopoly healthcare providers.
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HSJ Knowledge
Advice for PCTs on managing provider arms
Managing PCT provider arms is not a straightforward matter, as Jeremy Roper explains
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News
Lord Carter to head up NHS competition panel
Lord Carter of Coles is to be the first chair and director of the NHS Co-operation and Competition Panel.
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Chair of NHS co-operation and competition panel named
The first chair and director of the NHS co-operation and competition panel will be Lord Carter of Coles. He will take up the post in October.
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Comment
Stephen Pearson on partnership working
At the NHS Confederation conference, a group of mainly NHS managers was asked whether anyone thought working with the private sector was a bad idea. That no-one put their hand up is an indication of how far the NHS has come on partnership working.
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Comment
Mark Johnson on outsourcing in the health sector
A recent report into the impact, scale and potential of the 'public services industry' - private companies and other organisations that provide services to the government - is very timely.
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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.