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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
London hospital trusts have been forced to bring patient transport services in house or re-tender them as incumbent firms exit the market. Barts Health Trust in east London has confirmed … Read more
The NHS has had contracts with private hospitals to carry out elective surgery for many years and patients were able to choose a private hospital under the choose-and-book system. Successive … Read more
Since 2012 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and Trusts have sought to outsource non-emergency transport for the NHS. Emergency work has largely remained the remit of the ambulance trusts across the … Read more
People with drug and alcohol addiction are being put at risk of harm at many independent residential rehabilitation units, a new report has warned. The Care Quality Commission published the report today … Read more
A trust faces a £48m repair bill to make one of its hospitals safe because of loopholes in the drafting of its private finance initiative contract, Department of Health documents … Read more
A legal dispute between Virgin Care and six Surrey clinical commissioning groups has been resolved – with an apparent payment by the NHS to the company. The litigation – over … Read more
