The private healthcare company, Care UK, has sent letters to hundreds of GPs setting out a price list of operations they could offer their patients to beat NHS delays and … Read more
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A terminally ill cancer patient has protested after the NHS hospital where she receives palliative therapy included advertisements for a private clinic with her appointment letter. Ali Schofield, 33, who … Read more
Pulse reports that GPs leaders in England are pushing ahead with plans to develop new structures that will enable GPs to carry out more private work in a bid to … Read more
The BMA report, Privatisation and independent sector provision of NHS healthcare, calls for research into how the growing role of private providers in the NHS is affecting patients and doctors. Private … Read more
NHS England has paid £165,000 for a contract that has seen a private provider carry out just one out-of-area GP patient home visit and 18 phone consultations since last July. … Read more
The NHS (Reinstatement) bill received its second reading in parliament last week. Its aim is to reverse the creeping privatisation of our health service. The 2012 Health and Social Care Act opened up … Read more
The patriotically named Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) has seen a big opportunity in working with the NHS since 2006. The company has formed what it calls HCA NHS Ventures, which are … Read more
