A mental health hospital in Woking recorded 24 serious incidents a year including serious self harm a CQC inspection has found. There were several serious failings including, failure to protect … 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
“A GP, eh? Well I guess there are worse things you could do.” That was the only careers advice I got in my final year at medical school. The Royal … Read more
Theresa May has been urged to tighten checks on private hospitals used by the NHS after a Labour MP raised the case of a young patient with an open wound … Read more
Professor Tim Briggs has said the NHS must stop “leaking” £1.4bn to private providers to ensure its survival. Professor Briggs, who is leading the Getting It Right First Time programme … Read more
Commissioners in north London have awarded an extended primary care services contract to a private provider over the GP federation that was already providing the service, HSJ has learned. Camden Clinical Commissioning … Read more
Lewisham and Greenwich Trust stands to lose up to £6.6m of revenue over five years unless Circle Health, the winner of a musculoskeletal contract for Greenwich, contracts it to deliver … Read more
For the first time Gloucestershire’s out of hours services for patients is set to be taken over by a private healthcare company. Care UK will take over provision of the … Read more
It has been a calamitous winter inside the NHS. Last week, three people tragically died at Worcestershire Royal hospital with a women dying of a heart attack after waiting for 35 … Read more
NHS spending on private ambulances soars to meet demand The Telegraph: 10 August 2015 Private ambulance spending in London rises ‘tenfold’ (BBC News: 22 October 2014 NHS spending doubles on private … Read more
Opposition councillors have criticised plans to treat children as “guinea pigs” by awarding a £250 million family support service contract to Virgin Care. Essex County Council awarded the seven-year contract to … Read more
A “catalogue of failures” resulted in the collapse of an £800 million NHS contract to outsource care of older and mentally ill people, the Commons spending watchdog warned. An influential committee of … Read more
An MP has called on NHS managers to resolve problems with primary care in her constituency after the announcement that a practice will close just a year after a new … Read more
Virgin Care has been awarded two five year contracts to provide community and urgent care services for a clinical commissioning group in Lancashire. West Lancashire CCG launched a tender process … Read more
Virgin Care will run statutory adult social work services in Bath and North East Somerset from April 2017, in deal believed to be first of its type. Richard Branson’s Virgin … Read more
Some 27,000 patients are at risk of losing their GP practice as a provider has decided to hand back a contract it says is ‘not fit for purpose’. Greenbrook Healthcare, … 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
A trust has said it has no plans to pull out of its contract for a troubled radiology information system, shortly after its leaders considered terminating the deal early. A … Read more
A hospital trust which is £135million in debt has sparked fury by handing a whopping £600million contract to Serco. Debt-ridden Barts Health NHS Trust is already in Financial Special Measures … Read more
Family doctors have criticised the “shambles” that has ensued after the firm Capita was handed a £700m contract to provide important backup services to GP surgeries across England. GP practices … Read more
