All Private sector articles – Page 27
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HSJ Local
Private emergency care centre in special measures
A privately run emergency and urgent care centre at an Essex hospital has been put into special measures by the Care Quality Commission after it rated the service inadequate.
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HSJ Local
Integrated trust agrees joint venture to unlock estates efficiencies
An acute and community trust has entered into a 15 year estates partnership with a property company in a deal worth tens of millions of pounds.
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HSJ Local
Governance review at troubled trust as consultants warn of 'lack of expertise'
A troubled integrated trust has opened a financial governance review after consultants highlighted an underlying deficit worth more than 15 per cent of the organisation’s income.
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HSJ Local
Tender process launched to find screening provider
Commissioners are relaunching a stalled effort to find a single provider for the abdominal aortic aneurysm screening programme in south London and parts of Surrey.
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News
DHSC wins legal case over £730m logistics contract
A high court judge has dismissed a company’s legal challenge over the Department of Health and Social Care’s decision to award a £730m NHS logistics contract to a new provider.
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HSJ Local
Government promises £300m funding for Carillion hospital
A government pledge to provide funds for completion of a new acute hospital hit by Carillion’s collapse has been welcomed by the chief executive of the affected trust.
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News
More suppliers may benefit new NHS buying model, says purchasing chief
The drive to centralise how the NHS buys products will not necessarily mean reducing the number of suppliers, according to a procurement leader.
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News
Major savings project threatened by legal case over £730m contract, says DHSC
Senior government officials have warned that a legal challenge by the incumbent provider of the NHS Supply Chain threatens the success of a major savings programme.
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HSJ Local
CCG tenders £450m community services contract
Commissioners have tendered a £450m contract for community services in west London, which has sparked apparent interest from at least two NHS trusts and private provider Virgin Care.
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HSJ Local
Trust asks government for £300m to complete Carillion hospital
NHS managers have asked the government to plough more than £300m into completing construction of a new hospital which ground to a halt after Carillion’s collapse.
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News
Trusts to benefit from extra VAT recovery through new buying model
New procurement model presents VAT benefits for trusts Benefits possible because model’s operating body is subsidiary company of Department of Health and Social Care Changes will “itemise” VAT on NHS invoices VAT “not a direct consideration” for establishing subsidiary company, say DHSC NHS trusts will receive extra cash ...
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News
Trusts at risk of legal action over private activity data
Up to 100 NHS trusts have been warned they are putting themselves at risk of legal action by failing to provide data on their private patient activity, HSJ has been told.
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News
Companies exclude AHSN from work on major savings contracts
An academic health science network has been dropped from a partnership that is tasked with delivering millions of pounds of savings for the NHS, HSJ can reveal.
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News
Two acute trusts defy NHSI pathology plans
Two acute trusts are yet to agree to join pathology networks proposed 10 months ago by NHS Improvement under plans to save £200m by 2021.
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News
Private provider has third hospital placed in special measures
A private provider has had a third mental health hospital judged “inadequate” and placed in special measures by watchdog inspectors.
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News
DHSC to tighten control over wholly owned subsidiary companies
Scrutiny and regulation of the NHS’s use of wholly owned subsidiary companies will be strengthened to ensure trusts do not set up such bodies “solely” for tax avoidance purposes.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: ‘But they’re privatising the NHS!’
Andy Cowper on why the NHS is not being privatised and the consequences of a culture of deliberately incentivising lying
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News
Purchasing chief promises 'route to innovation' for suppliers
A new NHS purchasing chief has pledged to provide a “route to innovation” as part of changes to the way the health service buys diagnostic and pathology equipment.
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News
Trusts ordered to use vital savings tool for third year
NHS trusts must continue to access a savings tool which has generated “significant benefit” to the health service, NHS Improvement has confirmed.
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News
Exclusive: Rival bidder planned 340 more staff for controversial Capita contract
A rival bidder for NHS England’s ill-fated primary care support contract had proposed having around 340 more staff than the winning bid from Capita, HSJ has learned.