Patients should be charged for GP and hospital visits, leading doctors say. The British Medical Association (BMA) will vote next week on whether to lobby the Government to introduce alternative … Read more
A decision by Lancashire county council to award a £104m contract for children’s healthcare services to Virgin Care has been thrown out after a legal challenge by NHS trusts. A high court … Read more
HEALTH bosses have refused to issue an update into an investigation about whether thousands of smear tests were wrongly diagnosed – a year on. Pathology First in Bentalls, Basildon, is under … Read more
A private hospital group has been told it must improve its corporate governance after a number of its sites were criticised in a leadership review by the Care Quality Commission. … Read more
Patients have been “put at serious risk of harm” by the failure of a £330m outsourcing exercise which NHS England contracted to the private firm Capita in a bid to cut costs, the National Audit … Read more
Virgin Care’s Sutherland Lodge GP practice has been placed in special measures two years after the company took over. The practice has gone from an official rating of “outstanding” to … Read more
Full Article: European Service Strategy, 8 May 2018 The article proposes that service contracts are renegotiated so that the public authorities contract directly with the providers, not via the SPV. … Read more
Up to 450,000 women aged 68-71 were denied mammograms as a result of an IT error that wasn’t highlighted for nearly 10 years. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt revealed that up … Read more
The chairman of the BMA is concerned about the future of the building of two major hospitals previously contracted out to the now liquidated Carillion construction company. He said, “this … Read more
The death of an NHS patient has led to the issue of safety for NHS patients treated in private hospitals being raised directly with health secretary Jeremy Hunt. Simon Nelson, … Read more
Doctaly, the start-up company pairing NHS GP practices with private fee-paying patients, has signed deals with 36 UK GP practices. This includes 35 practices in England, as well as latest sign-up Lockthorn Medical … Read more
Hospital trusts are spending millions of pounds setting up arm’s-length private companies, which health unions fear will turn staff transferred into them into “second-class employees”. Fifteen trusts in England have … Read more
E-zec Medical Transport Service took over responsibility for non-emergency patient transport service from the NHS on April 1. The company was requested to take an elderly patient who cannot walk … Read more
NHS trusts are spending millions of pounds outsourcing staff to new private companies, research suggests. A Freedom of Information (FOI) request by Unison has revealed that NHS trusts in England … Read more
Over-reliance on informal arrangements by independent hospitals and doctors is a “major concern” and could put patients at risk, the Care Quality Commission has warned. Following inspections of more than … Read more
Private hospitals have been given two weeks to come up with a plan to “get their house in order” on safety and quality or else face tough sanctions imposed by … Read more
Pulse reports that a second provider of private online GP consultations, Push Doctor, is looking to offer its services via the NHS. The company currently offers video GP consultations ‘in … Read more
EMRAD covers eight trust in the East Midlands and paid £30m for a cloud-based picture archiving and communication system from GE Healthcare. However, even in 2016 the programme was causing … Read more
Circle Health has pulled out of a bid to continue running services at the Nottingham Treatment Centre, and threatened clinical commissioning groups with legal action over their £150m three year procurement. … Read more
Thames Ambulance Service (TAS) started it’s contract with North Lincolnshire 18 months ago but has received significant criticisms since doing so. The CCG has served notice on the company due … Read more
