A number of support services in the NHS are outsourced to private companies, this includes hospital maintenance and a large amount of administration, such as letters for cancer screening programmes. … Read more
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HSJ reports that the consultancy firm Accenture is very likely to face “big penalties” after a software upgrade led to the complete shutdown of the NHS email service. A well … Read more
Healthcare Environment Services (HES) has been stripped of NHS contracts after hundreds of tonnes of waste from hospitals, including human body parts, were allowed to pile up at its facilities, … Read more
Staff walked out this morning as part of the first 48-hour strike they have taken on this issue. Rachael Maskell, MP for York Central, was meeting workers on the picket … Read more
NHS hospital trusts have been told to stop setting up private companies and transferring staff into them, a move that has provoked strong criticism from health unions and Labour. NHS … Read more
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
A hospital trust in the north west has dropped plans to transfer hundreds of non-clinical staff into a subsidiary company, after a financial deal was struck with the local authority. … Read more
A sustainability and transformation partnership in the East Midlands has recruited Capita to help with the creation of its accountable care system. The Nottinghamshire and Nottingham STP has awarded a … 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
The GPC has told NHS managers that every practice should be compensated for the significant extra workload they have had to take on as a result of the ‘systematic failure’ … Read more
