All Private sector articles – Page 13
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News
Exclusive: Commercial covid labs seek NHS support
The private sector component of England’s national covid testing regime is running short on capacity and has asked the NHS for help, HSJ has learnt.
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Expert Briefing
Recovery watch: the NHS’ biggest restoration challenge
Recovering services from the covid crisis is the big task for NHS leaders for the foreseeable future. The new Recovery Watch newsletter tracks prospects and progress. This week by HSJ bureau chief and performance lead James Illman.
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HSJ Local
Trusts end Lorenzo use after failed national IT programme
An acute trust in Yorkshire has become the first of its cohort to fully replace its electronic patient record installed under the much-criticised National Programme for IT, with another trust set to follow suit.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: The grim truth on targets
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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News
NHS braces for £10bn spend on outsourcing work to private hospitals
The NHS could spend £10bn outsourcing work to private hospital groups over the next four years, HSJ can reveal.
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NHS and private sector on collision course over plans to reduce hospital waiting list
The NHS and private hospitals are on a collision course over a new multibillion-pound deal for how the service will access the independent sector’s capacity.
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Expert Briefing
London Eye: ‘Mad’
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by Ben Clover.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: The recovery position
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector - contact me in confidence.
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News
More private Lighthouse Labs on the way
More private sector Lighthouse labs will be opened in England to support the NHS Test and Trace ambition to have capacity to deliver 500,000 covid-19 swab tests a day.
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News
HMRC strengthens grip on NHS tax bills after trust’s legal challenge fails
The NHS could face stronger enforcement over wrongly VAT claims after a foundation trust lost an unusual legal battle with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.
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Investigations into alleged assaults on patients at private hospital
Two staff have been suspended from a major provider of mental health inpatient care, with alleged assaults of patients also being reported to the police.
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Watchdog probes management of major private provider
A government regulator is investigating concerns over the management of a major mental health provider, HSJ can confirm.
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News
Exclusive: Regulator launches independent review into care of vulnerable man
NHS England and Improvement have launched an independent review into the care and death of a man with learning disabilities, following concerns raised by HSJ.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: Why new plan for A&E could increase stigma
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector. Contact me in confidence.
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News
National NHS chiefs plan end to ‘messy’ covid tech deal
The NHS does not intend to renew a national contract with its main video platform provider Attend Anywhere and will instead aim to develop a more pluralistic market, HSJ can reveal.
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Leader
Will the public sector take back control of Test and Trace?
There is still an opportunity for the public sector to take back NHS Test and Trace.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: NHS failing to carry out basic checks on vulnerable
HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering safety, quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector. Contact me in confidence.
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News
New firm to be brought in to ‘harden’ covid testing system
A new external provider is being sought to “harden” the management of covid-19 home testing, to make it “fully resilient, scalable and automated”, in a £7m national deal.
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NHSE: Hospitals should ‘repurpose’ half non-clinical space for ‘surge capacity’
The NHS should halve its non-clinical space to free up extra capacity ahead of winter and further potential waves of covid-19, according to NHS England/Improvement’s estates chief.
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Ex-Capita director appointed chief of NHS support company
An NHS efficiency company has appointed a new managing director.