ISTC
Posted on January 21, 2010. Filed under: ISTC, News stories, Providers | Tags: Care UK, Circle, Interhealth, Netcare, Ramsay |
Health Service Journal | 21 JANUARY 2010 | BY ALISON MOORE The process for renewing contracts for the first independent treatment centres has been described as a “pig’s ear” by the chief executive of the largest independent provider in that sector. Ten of the “first wave” contracts are due to expire in the next six months – [...]
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Posted on December 21, 2009. Filed under: ISTC, Press/News Releases | Tags: PFI |
British Medical Association | Media Centre | 21 December 2009 Note: This paper is intended as background information for the media. It is not intended as a comprehensive BMA policy briefing paper. Introduction Funding for the NHS in England is expected to come under pressure after 2011, and there may be real term reductions in spending [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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