News stories
PCT and UnitedHealth end deal
Posted on August 20, 2010. Filed under: Commissioner, News stories | Tags: UnitedHealth |
HSJ |18 AUGUST, 2010 | BY STEVE FORD NHS Northamptonshire has terminated its contract for commissioning support with UnitedHealth UK a year early. The primary care trust signed a three year deal with UnitedHealth, under the framework for procuring external support for commissioners, in 2008. The NHS landscape has changed significantly since the deal first began; PCT priorities have [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Take Care Now set for takeover
Posted on February 18, 2010. Filed under: News stories, Providers | Tags: Harmoni, Out-of-hours, Take Care Now |
Healthcare Republic | Susie Sell | 18 February 2010 Private out-of-hours provider Take Care Now is set to be taken over by larger private firm Harmoni, after heads of agreement have been signed between the two companies. David Cocks, chief executive of TCN, suggested the future of the company is ‘best placed with a larger [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Managers oppose BMA’s anti-commercialisation campaign
Posted on February 15, 2010. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Commercialisation |
Healthcare Republic | Neil Durham | 15 February 2010 The NHS Confederation has declared its opposition to the BMA’s Look After Our NHS campaign against the commercialisation of the NHS. Nigel Edwards, NHS Confederation director of policy, said: ‘With the £20bn of savings in the NHS required over the next five years, the focus must continue [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Ten ways to face down competition from a Darzi centre
Posted on February 12, 2010. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories |
Pulse | 12 February 10 Hemmed in by seven Darzi centres all wanting a share of his practice list, Dr Michael Taylor had to come up with new ways to hang onto his patients. Here he shares the secrets of his success Marketing isn’t rocket science – it isn’t about spreading false truths or spending lots [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )GP-led health centres cost three times more than practices
Posted on February 12, 2010. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories |
Healthcare Republic | Neil Durham | 12 February 2010 New GP-led health centres have received three times the funding per patient of regular GP practices, despite in some cases very few patients registering with them, according to the BMA. This is one of the statements in a brochure warning of the impact market-based reforms are having [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Should GPs commission out-of-hours services?
Posted on February 10, 2010. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Out-of-hours |
GPs on the front-line are much better placed than PCTs to monitor out-of-hours care, argues Dr Charles Alessi. But Dr Ravi Mene disagrees, warning that if GPs take back out-of-hours it is bound to be underfunded. Change is inevitable, growth is intentional… without doubt, the NHS is coming to terms with the fact that change [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )GPs set up company to prevent ‘McDonald’s-style’ practices
Posted on February 8, 2010. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Privatisation |
Pulse | By Christian Duffin | 8 February 2010 An LMC is taking the extraordinary step of setting up a company to run out-of-contract practices on a short term basis – to block private sector companies stepping in. Essex LMCs expect to finalise plans and register with Companies House this week. The company, which as yet [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )NHS managers question viability of polysystems rollout
Posted on February 8, 2010. Filed under: News stories, Polyclinics | Tags: Poly-system |
Pulse | By Ian Quinn | 8 February 2010 Exclusive: NHS managers have raised serious doubts about the viability of controversial plans to group GPs in polysystems and transfer hundreds of thousands of hospital cases to them. Documents uncovered by Pulse demonstrate concerns within at least one PCT that some of the so-called polysystems being launched [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Government to bring in national model contract for out-of-hours care
Posted on February 5, 2010. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Out-of-hours |
Pulse | By Gareth Iacobucci | 5 February 2010 The Government is to introduce a national model contract and tougher minimum standards for PCTs to use when procuring out of hours services, in order to create tighter controls on GPs providing out-of-hours care. The announcement – which will also create more robust skills and knowledge testing [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )PMS funding diverted to pay for ‘polysystems’
Posted on February 4, 2010. Filed under: News stories, Polyclinics | Tags: Poly-system |
Pulse | By Ian Quinn | 4 February 2010 Exclusive: NHS managers are planning to scrap growth funding for PMS practices across London and use the cash to fund a new network of 100 ‘polysystems’ – the successors to Lord Darzi’s polyclinics. Plans unearthed by Pulse show trusts plan to make huge savings by denying growth [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Leaked report damns ‘serious’ out-of-hours failings
Posted on February 3, 2010. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Out-of-hours |
Pulse | By Ian Quinn | 3 February 2010 Exclusive: Patients have been placed at risk of ‘significant harm’ by a series of failings in an out-of-hours system spearheaded by NHS Direct, a confidential report leaked to Pulse warns. An investigation into West Yorkshire Urgent Care Service, by the doctor who drew up the Government’s national [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Conservatives urged to step up role of polyclinics and private sector
Posted on January 29, 2010. Filed under: News stories, Polyclinics, Providers | Tags: The Practice |
Pulse | By Steve Nowottny | 29 January 2010 The founder of a private provider running a series of GP practices across the country has issued a public plea to the Conservative party to maintain the ‘momentum’ of the polyclinic rollout if they win the general election. Dr Jeremy Rose, clinical director and founder GP of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Private providers to cover GP extended hours
Posted on January 28, 2010. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories, Providers | Tags: Out-of-hours, The Practice |
Pulse | By Gareth Iacobucci | 28 January 2010 Private firms will be able to cover extended-hours shifts for practices that do not to provide the service, under the next stage of the Government’s controversial drive to widen access to primary care. Neighbouring practices could also take on the shifts, in a move the GPC [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Complaints about GPs on OOH shifts soar by 50%
Posted on January 27, 2010. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Out-of-hours |
Pulse | By Gareth Iacobucci | 27 January 2010 A leading defence body has warned that complaints against GPs related to out-of-hours consultations are growing in number, with a 50% increase seen in the past two years. The Medical Defence Union said it had been notified of 517 complaints related to out-of-hours consultations by GP members [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Health bosses come under fire over polyclinic plan
Posted on January 25, 2010. Filed under: News stories, Polyclinics |
Ilford Recorder | ZJAN SHIRINIAN | 25 January 2010 THE Redbridge health roadmap was torn apart by an angry councillor who warned the borough would be lumbered with five run down polyclinics if it pressed ahead with plans to build more of the super surgeries. Fairlop Polyclinic is one of four new health centres set [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )New surgery in Kingstanding
Posted on January 22, 2010. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories | Tags: Assura |
Sutton Coldfield Observer | 22 January 2010 HEALTHCARE in Kingstanding has been given a boost after a doctors’ partnership signed up to run a new GP practice. The new practice, based at the Warren Farm Health Centre, will be served by doctors from Assura Vertis, a group of 23 GP practices based in the Redditch [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )New wave of APMS tenders announced
Posted on January 22, 2010. Filed under: News stories | Tags: APMS, Provider-commissioner |
Pulse | By Yvette Martyn | NHS South West Essex | 22 January 2010 A PCT has announced plans to farm out 10 GP practices under a new wave of APMS tenders, in a move raising questions over the Government’s new-found commitment to ensure the NHS is the ‘preferred provider’. NHS South West Essex will tender [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )OOH providers to be named and shamed in new benchmarking drive
Posted on January 22, 2010. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Out-of-hours |
Pulse | By Gareth Iacobucci | 22 January 2010 PCTs and out-of-hours providers who fall short of national benchmarking standards are to be named and shamed under new plans to drive up standards of care. The Primary Care Foundation is planning to publish names of trusts and out-of-hours providers, and patient feedback, as part of the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )MPs told to ‘free’ PCTs of acute commissioning
Posted on January 21, 2010. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Commissioning |
Health Service Journal | 21 JANUARY 2010 | BY NICK GOLDING Primary care trusts should be “released” from commissioning acute care and left to concentrate on improving primary and community services, MPs have been told. York University professor of health economics Andrew Street suggested that the Department of Health should fund hospitals directly, as part of his [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Care UK chief hits out at renewal process as ITC contracts expire
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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