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Posted on December 2, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, ISTC, News stories, Providers | Tags: Care UK, Privatisation, Spire Healthcare, UnitedHealth |
The Guardian | By Owen Bowcott | 2 December 2009
The government has reignited the political debate about private healthcare companies delivering NHS treatment.
On a spotless hospital ward pensioners displaying fresh bandages were delighted their knees and hips had just been replaced by the NHS. The surgery had been as good as going private, they declared. Which [...]
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Posted on November 19, 2009. Filed under: ISTC, Journals, News stories |
Health Service Journal | By Clare Lomas | 19 November 2009
Out of hospital services run by the independent company Clinicenta have been suspended by NHS London following concerns over the company’s performance.
The strategic health authority is now conducting an investigation into the services provided by Clinicenta in 20 north London boroughs.
A spokesperson for NHS London said the [...]
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Posted on October 9, 2009. Filed under: ISTC, Reports/papers | Tags: King's Fund |
The King’s Fund | Author: Chris Naylor, Sarah Gregory | Published 1 October 2009 | accessed 9 October 2009
Independent sector treatment centres (ISTCs) provide services to NHS patients but are owned and run by organisations outside the NHS. This briefing paper explains why ISTCs were introduced, and how they are funded, staffed and regulated. It [...]
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Posted on September 3, 2009. Filed under: ISTC, News stories | Tags: Marketisation, PFI |
Guardian | Comment is free | By Allyson Pollock | 3 September 2009
Downsizing the workforce is a business response to loss of profit – but it doesn’t account for the NHS goal of universal healthcare
The core goal of universal healthcare and services planned on the basis of need and not ability to pay is being [...]
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Posted on August 18, 2009. Filed under: ISTC, News stories, Press/News Releases | Tags: Nations Healthcare |
Yorkshire Evening Post | By Katie Baldwin | 18 August 2009
PRIVATE firms and NHS bodies have been invited to bid to run a medical centre which treats thousands of Leeds patients.
The contract to run Eccleshill NHS Treatment Centre, right, where an operation on a Leeds lecturer went fatally wrong in 2007, ends next February.
The facility, [...]
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Posted on August 5, 2009. Filed under: ISTC, News stories |
OnMedica Views | Alan Maynard, professor of health economics, York | 5 August 2009
Initially the Blair government wanted about 15% of elective care to be provided by Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs). About half this capacity has been commissioned and starting in 2010 the contracts for over 30 units will come up for renewal.
The initial [...]
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Posted on August 4, 2009. Filed under: ISTC, News stories |
Healthcare Republic | 4 August 2009
Private companies will in future have to compete on the same terms as other NHS providers, ministers have announced.
In the past the contracts to run Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs) have included income guarantees, in order to limit the risk to the companies running them.
This has often resulted in companies [...]
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Posted on July 30, 2009. Filed under: ISTC, Press/News Releases |
Department of Health | News Distribution Service | 30 July 2009
The future use of Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs) in the NHS, will be fairer and on the same terms as other providers of NHS services, Health Minister Mike O’Brien announced today.
Under the changes set out today, each contract will be reviewed on a case-by-case [...]
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Posted on July 30, 2009. Filed under: ISTC, Journals |
Health Service Journal | BY SALLY GAINSBURY | 30 July 2009
The buildings and facilities of up to 16 independent sector treatment centres will need to be bought by the NHS over the next two years at a capital cost estimated at £200m, the Department of Health has confirmed.
The £200m cost relates to the so-called “residual value [...]
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Posted on July 28, 2009. Filed under: ISTC, Journals |
Health Service Journal | 28 July 2009
Private patients have full rights to NHS critical care treatment if required, according to a newly ratified protocol.
The agreement was signed by the Independent Healthcare Advisory Services, Department of Health, Intensive Care Society and National Critical Care Stakeholder Forum.
It reiterates the underlying right to free NHS treatment contained in the 1977 [...]
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Posted on June 10, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, ISTC, LIFT, Reports/papers, Social enterprise | Tags: Out-of-hours, PBC, Provider-commissioner |
NHS Support Federation
Executive summary
• The government is carrying out the ‘patchwork privatisation’ of the NHS. For the first time, this report presents a comprehensive picture of the many kinds of privatisation occurring in the health service. It provides indisputable evidence that a process of privatisation is in train.
• This is happening on such a scale [...]
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Posted on May 2, 2009. Filed under: ISTC, News stories |
Healthcare Republic | 1 May 2009
The NHS in England may have overpaid the first wave independent sector treatment centres (ISTCs) by £927m for clinical services, researchers warn.
They call for a moratorium on all private contracts until the centres have been properly evaluated and investigated.
The £5bn ISTC programme aims to provide extra capacity to the NHS [...]
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Posted on April 23, 2009. Filed under: ISTC, Journals, Providers | Tags: Clinicentre, Surgicentre |
Health Services Journal | BY ALISON MOORE | 23 APRIL 2009
An independent treatment centre that will treat up to 15,000 NHS patients a year has been given the go-ahead – six years after it was first proposed.
Construction of the £31m surgicentre at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, is expected to start within days and it will [...]
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Posted on April 22, 2009. Filed under: ISTC | Tags: Definition |
Health Management Specialist Library | accessed 22 April 2009
Definition
‘3.43 We will ensure that both new and existing providers are allowed to provide services in underserved areas. Social enterprises, the voluntary sector and independent sector providers will all make valuable contributions in the longstanding challenge of addressing inequalities.’ (1)
‘Patients living in deprived areas should soon find it easier to [...]
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