Four urgent care treatment centres run by Partnership of East London Co-operatives (PELC) Limited have been rated ‘inadequate’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and put in special measures. The centres, King George’s Emergency … Read more
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The Guardian has revealed that a second company, LFI Diagnostics, that the Tory peer Michelle Mone lobbied ministers over in an attempt to secure government Covid contracts was a secret entity of … Read more
The Times reports that Philip Johnson, majority owner and CEO of RamFoam, whose company made a £70 million profit on a contract for PPE that was mostly unused has paid … Read more
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has claimed that staff mistakes at Immensa Laboratories in Wolverhampton may have caused 23 extra deaths from Covid-19. The report said as many as … Read more
Byline Times reports that companies that were referred by Conservative MPs and peers to the expedited ‘VIP’ lane for personal protective equipment (PPE) contracts during the pandemic have seen their … Read more
A Pulse investigation into the continued problems of the Primary Care Support Services contract run by Capita since 2015 reveals that many problems remain. It’s been seven years since NHS … Read more
HSJ reports that NHS England is assessing the viability of establishing an NHS-owned consortium to bring some of the diagnostic work currently being done for profit in the private sector … Read more
This week will see government ministers under pressure to explain how they assessed that a personal protective equipment (PPE) company linked to the Conservative peer Michelle Mone was fit to receive government … Read more
The Conservative peer Michelle Mone and her children secretly received £29m originating from the profits of the PPE business, PPE Medpro, that was awarded large government contracts after she recommended it to … Read more
The Guardian reports that an NHS project to incorporate tens of millions of personal digital medical records into one of the biggest health data platforms in the world is to be launched … Read more
NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board has decided not to renew Operose’s contract to run the Hanley Primary Care Centre in Islington. The contract, which Operose acquired when it … Read more
Somerset Foundation Trust has partnered with Alliance Medical for its Taunton Diagnostic Centre. The previous private partner, Rutherford Health, went into liquidation in June 2022. The centre only opened in … Read more
Tory MP Dr Liam Fox received a £20,000 donation earlier this year from the Covid-19 testing company, SureScreen Diagnostics, that he reportedly contacted the former health secretary over. According to … Read more
NHS England has awarded a contract to St John Ambulance for additional ambulance service capacity nationally to help cope with high demand and handover delays, with the capacity available from … Read more
HSJ reports that a lack of digital ‘skill and resource’ has meant that NHS England is tendering for a £9m contract for an external supplier to establish a ‘centre of … Read more
The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has said that ministers and government officials played “fast and loose” when awarding £777m in Covid contracts to a healthcare firm that … Read more
Privatisation of the NHS has been found to correspond to a decline in care quality and “significantly” increased deaths from treatable causes, according to a study from researchers at the … Read more
NHS England has extended Capita’s primary care support services contract for three more years for £94m. Capita took over the Primary Care Support England contract in September 2015 in a seven-year deal … Read more
The private cancer diagnostic and treatment company Rutherford Health has been placed into liquidation. Only eight months ago the opening of a new community diagnostics hub (CDH) within a partnership between … Read more
The push to expand the number of ‘virtual wards’ across England is set to be another opportunity for independent providers to gain NHS contracts. NHS England wants a rapid expansion … Read more
