Press/News Releases

NHS Southampton City and NHS Portsmouth agree to combine community healthcare providers

Posted on December 21, 2009. Filed under: Arm's length providers, Press/News Releases |

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 full business [...]

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New GP- Led Health Centre Open

Posted on December 16, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, Press/News Releases, Providers | Tags: |

NHS Milton Keynes | News Release | 16 December 2009
NHS Milton Keynes is pleased to announce that the new GP-led health centre is now open.
Milton Keynes’ 28th GP practice is based in Broughton Gate. It is open from 8am until 8pm seven days a week, including weekends. The health centre offers all the services offered [...]

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Proposal for a new GP-led health centre in Leeds

Posted on December 14, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, Press/News Releases | Tags: |

NHS Leeds | Analysis Report | October 2008 (pdf)
If you are reading this document then we believe you are interested in what happens to your local health services and would like to get involved. We welcome this and are pleased to hear your thoughts.
1 What this document is about

1.1 This document has been produced by [...]

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NHS Blackpool acquires Toshiba Aplio XG for new GP Led Health Centre

Posted on November 30, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, Press/News Releases, Providers |

Toshiba Medical Systems UK | News & Press |  NHS Blackpool | 30 November 2009
The 100th fully operational new GP led health centre in England was officially opened in Blackpool on the 19th November by Health Secretary Andy Burnham.
NHS Blackpool’s £20m state-of-the art innovative Whitegate Health Centre houses the latest of the 152 GP led [...]

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New Era for GP-led Healthcare as NHS Leicester City names preferred bidders in £15m investment

Posted on November 10, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, Press/News Releases, Providers | Tags: , |

NHS Leicester City | News Release | 10 November 2009 (pdf)
Patients in Leicester will get a huge boost to their health care thanks to a £15million investment for new General Practitioner (GP) practices and a GP-led health centre.
This means two new GP practices and a new GP-led health centre are to open next year with a further practice [...]

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Community Health Partnerships

Posted on October 26, 2009. Filed under: LIFT, Press/News Releases, Providers |

CHP website | accessed 26 October 2009
Community Health Partnerships (CHP) develops, creates investment in and helps deliver innovative ways to improve health and local authority services.
Its main activity has been to deliver the Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) Initiative which provides clean, modern, purpose-built premises for health and local authority services in England.
So far it [...]

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Alliance calls for NHS providers to get priority

Posted on October 26, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Press/News Releases | Tags: , , |

Pulse | By Gareth Iacobucci | 26 October 2009
The NHS Alliance is urging the Government to slam the brakes on privatisation of NHS services by adopting new rules on APMS tendering.
Under its proposals PCTs would be barred from approaching independent providers unless they could satisfy detailed criteria that existing NHS services were not meeting quality standards.
In [...]

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New GP-led health centre opens in Cowgate

Posted on October 20, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, Press/News Releases, Providers | Tags: |

NHS North OF Tyneside | News Release | 20 October 2009
A new local GP-led health centre, featuring some state-of-the-art medical equipment, has successfully opened in the heart of a Newcastle community.
Since opening, Ponteland Road Health Centre, near the Aldi store in Cowgate, has received strong interest from local residents and those from nearby Blakelaw.
More than [...]

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Walk-in doctors’ surgery launched in Nuneaton

Posted on October 20, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, Integrated care, Journals, Press/News Releases, Providers | Tags: , |

Coventry Telegraph | 20 October 2009
AN INNOVATIVE walk-in doctor’s surgery has been launched at a health centre in Nuneaton.
It will allow patients to have an appointment even if they are registered with another surgery and is part of a government programme to increase access to family GP services.
George Eliot Hospital has become the first Acute [...]

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Assura Peninsula Health LLP

Posted on October 16, 2009. Filed under: Press/News Releases, Providers | Tags: |

Assura Peninsula Health LLP | accessed 16 October 2009
Twenty-five Wirral practices joined together in a limited liability partnership to form Peninsula Health in 2007. 
The objective of their partnership is to become a provider of specialist services in a community setting. 
These practices provide care to 122,000 Wirral residents and they will continue to operate as individual general practices looking after [...]

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Malling Health centres

Posted on October 16, 2009. Filed under: Press/News Releases, Providers | Tags: , |

Malling Health | News Release | accessed 16 October 2009

NHS Westminster award flagship centre to Malling Health
NHS Kingston appoint Malling Health as preferred provider for their ‘Chessington World of Primary Care’
NHS Cambridgeshire have chosen Malling Health for their GP led Health Centre in St Neots
Double win for Malling Health in Telford
NHS shropshire awards Malling [...]

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Labour welcomes plans for a polyclinic in Harrow East

Posted on October 12, 2009. Filed under: Polyclinics, Press/News Releases | Tags: |

Labour Matters | By Harrow Labour | NHS London | 12 October 2009
Good news for residents of Queensbury and Edgware Wards in Harrow East. 
Proposals are being considered for a new polyclinic in Mollison Way to replace the former surgery in South Parade. This follows a campaign by local Labour councillors. In addition, there is a [...]

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Assurance over new health centre

Posted on September 30, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories, Press/News Releases, Providers | Tags: |

Scarborough Evening News | North Yorkshire & York PCT | East Riding of Yorkshire PCT |  30 September 2009
SCARBOROUGH’S new “Darzi” health centre will ensure patients continue to receive the best possible care without affecting existing GP services in the town.
That was the message in a public meeting at The Christian (Oasis) Centre where more [...]

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BECKENHAM: Health centre set to open at the Beacon

Posted on September 22, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories, Press/News Releases, Providers | Tags: |

News Shopper | Bromley PCT | 22 September 2009
PATIENTS will be able to see GPs seven days a week thanks to the opening of a new health centre.
Staff at the Cator Medical Centre (CMC) will provide an 8am to 8pm service 365 days a year at the Beckenham Beacon hospital site, Croydon Road, Beckenham.
Registered patients [...]

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Popular new GP-led health centre proves a hit with patients

Posted on September 2, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, Press/News Releases, Providers | Tags: |

Assura website | Press Releases | Coventry tPCT | 2 September 2009

The newly opened Coventry NHS Healthcare and Walk-in Centre on Stoney Stanton Road has proved extremely popular with local people after treating and registering a far higher number of patients than expected.
Since opening on April 1st, the Centre has treated 23,000 patients at an [...]

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It’s Full Steam-Ahead for GP-Led Health Centre

Posted on August 26, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, Press/News Releases, Providers | Tags: |

Wandsworth PCT | Press Releases | 26 August 2009
Planning permission for the new GP-led health centre, scheduled to open in spring 2010, has been given the go ahead by Wandsworth Borough Council. Situated right next door to the Clapham Junction Station entrance, on Grant Road, this state of the art centre will be constructed in [...]

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Freshney Green set to open

Posted on August 24, 2009. Filed under: Press/News Releases, Providers | Tags: , |

North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus | News | 24 August 2009
The latest development as part of North East Lincolnshire CTP’s Estate’s Strategy, Freshney Green Primary Care Centre, opens its doors to patients on Monday 7th September.  
Three local GP practices, Field House Medical Centre, the Littlefield Practice and the Woodford Medical Centre, will move into [...]

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Bids are invited over Leeds fatal op health centre

Posted on August 18, 2009. Filed under: ISTC, News stories, Press/News Releases | Tags: |

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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Take Care Now

Posted on August 6, 2009. Filed under: Press/News Releases, Providers | Tags: , |

Take Care Now | accessed 6 August 2009
Take Care Now is one of the UK’s leading independent healthcare providers.  TCN currently provides health services to over 2.1 million people living, or resident, in the UK. We work in partnership with the NHS to provide:
•    Out of Hours services (healthcare when GP surgeries are closed)
•    Integrated sexual health [...]

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Newham Primary Care Social Enterprise

Posted on August 5, 2009. Filed under: Press/News Releases, Providers, Social enterprise | Tags: |

Harmoni | Newham PCT | accessed 5 August 2009
The company’s activities will aim to improve the lives of people living in of Newham. There are some areas of Newham which are under-Doctored and have problems accessing primary care physicians. We believe that a Social Enterprise Company, which has at its core 160 GPs in 60 [...]

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