A Care Quality Commission (CQC) report has downgraded the Cygnet Hospital at Godden Green near Sevenoaks to “requires improvement”. The CQC also imposed two requirement notices on the hospital in … Read more
Safety
NHS England has estimated that over 50% NHS consultants do private work. These consultants get profit from surgery they perform in the private sector and this includes cancer treatment. There … Read more
The surgery performed in private hospitals is largely NHS consultants during their non-NHS hours. There is huge competition between private and public hospitals for referrals. Private hospitals have been providing … Read more
A leading doctor, part of an NHS England group tasked with designing new child cancer standards, has told HSJ that adjustments to soften the projects were “insisted on” by its … Read more
Warrington and Halton Hospitals Trust are now offering 71 private healthcare treatments, including new hips priced at £18,143. Desperate patients, who would have otherwise received this treatment free of charge, … Read more
NHS are struggling to fulfil the needs of 4.23 million people in England waiting for a hip operation in March alone, with this figure on the increase. The number of … Read more
A coroner has issued warnings over safety at private hospitals after a patient referred out of the NHS by his consultant died following surgery. Businessman and father-of-two Simon Healey died from sepsis … Read more
Two G4S ambulance crew members have been suspended after it was found that they had left a voicemail message for a vulnerable patient in which they suggested they could “beat … Read more
The Care Quality Commission has rated an independent mental health hospital as “inadequate”, just 15 months after it was rated as “good”, and following abuse allegations being raised. The care … Read more
Private hospitals should be encouraged to publish information on their safety, according to the leader of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, to prevent another scandal like the one … Read more
NHS chiefs are bringing the cervical screening service back in-house after expressing dissatisfaction at the way it has been performing. The chief executive of NHS England, Simon Stevens, told the … Read more
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is calling on independent ambulance services, commissioners and the wider system to do more to make sure patients are safe, following concerns identified during its … Read more
GP Online reports that Babylon Health’s GP at Hand service has never been inspected by the CQC despite signing up more than 45,000 NHS patients and preparing to expand to … Read more
The Guardian reports that government and opposition MPs are asking NHS England to halt the privatisation of cancer screening services in the Oxfordshire area, which doctors are warning will damage … Read more
The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch has warned, in a report published today, that private finance initiative contracts and cost pressures could present a “systemic barrier” for trusts responding to patient … Read more
According to HSJ, the NHS App which was designed to be a digital “front door” for all NHS patients is actually unable to connect with any current providers of online … Read more
The Priory, the private mental healthcare group, faces a multimillion-pound fine for breaching health and safety laws after a 14-year-old girl with a history of suicide attempts died in its … Read more
The Priory Group’s hospital in High Wycombe, which caters for children aged 13 to 17 with learning disabilities and/or autism, is to be closed after the health and care regulator … Read more
A major provider of inpatient learning disability and mental health services has had one of its hospitals placed into special measures by the Care Quality Commission, which raised concerns staff … Read more
Pulse reports that, the grassroots GP campaign group, GP Survival, has called on GPs to boycott working with Babylon until the independent evaluation of its NHS service is complete and … Read more
