Capita fails to deliver GP Pensions
Since being outsourced by Capita in September 2015, Primary Care Support England (PCSE) has had increasing problems. To target improvements within the service, NHS England had a management watch team. … Read more
Department of Health sets up company to oversee £2bn savings drive
The Department of Health and Social Care has established a subsidiary company to manage the new NHS procurement model, which aims to deliver more than £2bn of savings over five … Read more
G4S and Kent’s non-emergency ambulance service
G4S has a string of missing targets behind them regarding their performance with Kent’s non-emergency ambulance services. The company took over from NSL in 2016 with a £90m contract and … Read more
NHS trusts accused of creating ‘dozens of Carillion-style meltdowns’
Growing numbers of hospital trusts are transferring staff into newly created private subsidiary firms in a move health unions warn will create a “two-tier workforce” in the NHS. Trusts are … Read more
Controversial ‘CareBnB’ firm returns to launch new trial
The company developing a controversial “Airbnb for social care” model allowing homeowners to rent spare rooms to recuperating hospital patients is bidding to launch a new trial in Cambridge. Private … Read more
675 NHS staff in Gloucestershire to transfer to separate company after behind-closed-doors meeting
Almost 700 non-clinical staff working at NHS hospitals in Gloucestershire will be moved to a new subsidiary company. The final decision on the proposals was taken in a behind-closed-doors meeting … Read more
Subsidiary company plans approved by Gloucestershire NHS Trust
The board of the Gloucestershire NHS trust which runs the county’s biggest hospitals has approved controversial proposals to set up a subsidiary company (SubCo) to employ almost 700 of its … Read more
Trusts set up private companies to save vital staff.
Dozens of NHS hospital trusts across England are looking at (or already have) set up private companies in which to transfer swathes of vital NHS staff and assets. The moves … Read more
Arriva and staff payment dispute
Ambulance staff working in Greater Manchester are considering striking after it was revealed that they were getting paid £2.40 less than other colleagues doing the same job. The service is … Read more
Hundreds of NHS staff forcibly moved to a private company, says UNISON
Moving 350 NHS staff into a Trust-owned private company has put Yeovil hospital in breach of licence, public service union UNISON has set out. In a letter to NHS regulators, UNISON … Read more
Dozens of patients told to contact GP after false cervical cancer screening results
Dozens of women who had been assured that their cervical cancer screening results were negative are now being told they were abnormal and have been advised to contact their GPs … Read more
BMA slams ‘confusion, chaos and failures’ behind misdirected clinical letters
NHS England continues to receive between 5,000 and 10,000 items of clinical correspondence a month that have been sent in error by GP practices to Capita, according to a report by … Read more
Virgin set to bid for £260m children’s services contract
Virgin Care has indicated it will bid for an NHS contract to provide children’s community and mental health services in Devon worth at least £259m over seven years, HSJ has learned. The … Read more
Emis fails to meet standards of NHS digital
Emis notified investors that it is due to receive penalties “in the order of upper single digits of millions of pounds” after failing to meet requirements in it’s GP system … Read more
Capita problems affecting practice funding, workforce and patients, say GPs
Just 11% of GP partners have not had any problems with the primary care support service run by Capita over the last 12 months, according to the GPonline poll. The results … Read more
14 trusts start contingency plans after Carillion collapse
Contingency plans are in operation across 14 NHS trusts after the collapse of construction and facilities management company Carillion. Staff from NHS Improvement were deployed on Monday at six of … Read more
NHS app for GP video appointments signs up thousands of Londoners
Thousands of Londoners have signed up for a controversial NHS smartphone service that allows video consultations with a GP around the clock. The GP at Hand app attracted almost 7,000 Londoners in its first … Read more
Concern from MP over ‘shoddy’ Roseberry Park Hospital
Andy McDonald, Labour MP for Middlesbrough has voiced concern over the “shoddily-built” £75m Roseberry Park mental health hospital. The hospital only opened seven years ago, but has suffered problems with … Read more
Richard Branson’s Virgin healthcare firm scoops £1bn of NHS contracts
Richard Branson’s Virgin Care won a record £1bn of NHS contracts last year, as £3.1bn of health services were privatised despite a government pledge to reduce the proportion of care … Read more
Four Seasons Health Care earns reprieve after deal with creditors
A deal has been agreed to stave off the collapse of Four Seasons Health Care, which looks after 17,000 elderly and vulnerable people, after the company’s largest creditor agreed to … Read more
