Arm’s length providers
How many GP practices are being run by NHS Norfolk or their provider arm?
NHS Norfolk | Freedom of Information | 23 December 2009 Question: 1. How many GP practices are being run by NHS Norfolk or their provider arm? This would include both long term and temporary contracts. 2. What are the PCT’s plans for these GP practices? Is NHS Norfolk planning to divest themselves of these services [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )NHS Southampton City and NHS Portsmouth agree to combine community healthcare providers
Southampton Community Healthcare | About us | News Release | accessed 21 December 2009 NHS Southampton City and NHS Portsmouth Trust Boards have this week given their approval to integrate their provider arms, Portsmouth Community and Mental Health Services and Southampton Community Healthcare. NHS Portsmouth’s Trust Board today agreed to proposals outlined in the joint [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Merger of Ealing PCT’s provider services arm, Harrow PCT’s provider services arm and Ealing Hospital NHS Trust
Co-operation and Competition Panel | accessed 18 December 2009 Ealing PCT’s provider services arm, Harrow PCT’s provider services arm and Ealing Hospital NHS Trust are proposing to merge to form an Integrated Care Organisation. Consistent with its draft interim merger guidelines, the CCP will examine the costs and benefits of the proposed merger to patients [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )NHS Plymouth provider arm
NHS Plymouth | FOIA 671 | 6 October 2009 Item 1: Has your provider arm achieved Autonomous Provider Organisation (APO) status? No. Item 2: If not, when will you reach this stage? NHS Plymouth does not hold this information because no date is set. Item 3: What is your decision for the future organisational form [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Variation shows NHS community services ripe for efficiencies
Health Service Journal | By Helen Crump| 13 August 2009 Huge variations in the working practices of primary care trust provider arms are masking large potential efficiency savings. An HSJ snapshot survey based on information supplied by 77 provider arms that responded to a freedom of information request to all primary care trusts revealed stark differences. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Southampton patients to gain improved NHS access as GP-led Health Centre contract is awarded
NHS Southampton City | News Release | 12 June 2009 NHS Southampton City can today announce that a contract has been awarded for a GP-led Health Centre at the Adelaide Health Centre, Millbrook*, to open in November 2009. Provided by Southampton Community Healthcare, which has been awarded the contract, the GP-led health centre will offer [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Competition panel looks at NHS provider shift
Health Services Journal | BY HELEN CRUMP | 27 May 2009 The co-operation and competition panel is to investigate plans to transfer a primary care trust provider arm’s services to a foundation trust. The co-operation and competition panel is to investigate plans to transfer a primary care trust provider arm’s services to a foundation trust. The [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )PCT boards risk governance failure over provider organisations
Health Services Journal | 9 APRIL 2009 | BY HELEN CRUMP Primary care trust boards risk failures in governance because arrangements for appointing the boards of their arm’s-length provider organisations are unclear. The NHS Confederation is calling for provider arms to be treated like wholly owned subsidiaries of private companies. The Department of Health’s rules say PCTs should [...]
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