Full story on Open Democracy, 19 September 2018 NHS trusts in England are setting up wholly owned subsidiaries (WOSs) in a bid to avoid tax. And the dangers inherent in … Read more
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Full story in The Guardian, 10 September 2018 Ministers have been accused of “selling off the NHS family silver” after figures revealed that the amount of health service land being earmarked for … Read more
Full story in HSJ, 17 September 2018 Under the preferred option, set out by commissioners, Medway Foundation Trust will lose its stroke services with three HASUs at Darent Valley Hospital, in Dartford, … Read more
Full story in The Guardian, 31 August 2018 NHS bosses have urged hospitals to send patients to be treated by private healthcare firms in a bid to reduce the increasing … Read more
The Guardian reports that record numbers of suspected cancer patients are facing delays before starting their treatment amid growing pressure on increasingly overstretched NHS services for the disease. In the … Read more
A large NHS body has spent millions of pounds on management consultants for a plan designed to save money – but which could cost more than £1bn to put into practice. Over … Read more
A private mental health hospital which treats NHS funded patients including children has been judged inadequate for safety by CQC inspectors. The Priory Hospital North London was rated “requires improvement” overall by … Read more
Ashford and St Peter’s Foundation Trust threatened to serve notice on an operational agreement with BMI Healthcare under which the trust provides some services to the company’s Runnymede Hospital, which … Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The NHS is “leaking” money to private companies in contracts to build and run hospitals, a report says. Under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), companies provide money for new hospitals … Read more
A major Pulse investigation has revealed that private companies are boosting their profits by up to 100% as the health service struggles to cope. An analysis of company reports and … Read more
Nurses at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust are having to clean wards after cleaners from a private company in order to maintain standards, the trust board has said. At a meeting … Read more
There was a “gap” in commissioners’ assurance process for an urgent care contract with Care UK and the provider’s staffing model was flawed, a review has found. The report by Verita, published … Read more
