Providers
Posted on December 21, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Providers | Tags: Harmoni, Out-of-hours, Take Care Now |
Pulse | By Gareth Iacobucci | 21 December 2009
An private out-of-hours provider which came under fire over the death of a patient under the care of one of its foreign locum GPs has lost its second contract in a matter of weeks.
NHS Suffolk has announced it will not renew its contract with Take Care Now – [...]
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Posted on December 18, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Providers, Uncategorized | Tags: APMS, AT Medical |
Pulse | By Gareth Iacobucci | NHS Kingston | 18 December 2009
The Co-operation and Competition Panel (CCP) has ruled in favour of a local GP practice after concluding that a PCT’s decision to prevent them from expanding their practice nearby was ‘inconsistent’ with competition rules.
The panel ruled that NHS Kingston’s decision to deny Churchill Medical Centre [...]
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Posted on December 17, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Providers | Tags: ASDA, Primecare, Walk in centre |
Hereford Times | NHS Herefordshire | 17 December 2009
PEOPLE feeling under the weather can now walk into a new health centre without an appointment to see a GP or nurse in Hereford.
NHS Herefordshire launched the new service, available seven days a week between 8am and 8pm, next to the ASDA store on Monday.
“When we consulted the [...]
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Posted on December 16, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, Press/News Releases, Providers | Tags: The Practice |
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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Posted on December 7, 2009. Filed under: Providers | Tags: Horizon Health Choices Ltd |
Horizon Health Choices website | About Us | accessed 7 December 2009
Horizon Health Choices is an independent healthcare provider that supports the NHS in delivering patient services. We have listened to our patients and we endeavour to offer patients a service that has low waiting times, high levels of patient satisfaction and is closer to [...]
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Posted on December 3, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Providers | Tags: Walk in centre, Hope Citadel |
Middleton Guardian | NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale | 3 December 2009
A REVOLUTIONARY health centre has opened its doors in Middleton and promises to provide a unique service for residents.
Located on the first floor of Middleton Shopping Centre, Middleton Health Centre is the only place in the borough where people can walk in and see [...]
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Posted on December 3, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories, Providers | Tags: West Lancashire Partnership |
Ormskirk Advertiser | By Janine Yaqoob | NHS Central Lancashire | 3 December 2009
A NEW £3million state-of-the-art health centre has opened in Ormskirk.
West Lancashire Health Centre, based at Ormskirk & District General Hospital, officially opened its doors on Monday and is expected to improve health services for people across the district.
The centre provides pre-booked and [...]
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Posted on December 3, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories, Polyclinics, Providers | Tags: Hurley Group, Tesco-Metro style |
Healthcare Republic | GP Newspaper | By Tom Ireland | 3 December 2009
Londonwide LMCs is developing a model of ‘intermediate partnership’ to help salaried or sessional GPs.
The emergence of federated practices and polyclinics in the capital requires new models of GP partnership, said Londonwide LMCs joint chief executive, Dr Michelle Drage. ‘The current model of [...]
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Posted on December 2, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Providers | Tags: Walk in centre, Elgar Healthcare |
Worcester News | David Paine | NHS Worcestershire | 2 December 2009
NEARLY 5,000 people have used a new walk-in health centre in Worcester since it opened in the summer.
There are also about 500 people registered at the centre in Farrier House, Farrier Street.
Paul Bates, chief executive of NHS Worcestershire, said a real cross-section of people [...]
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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 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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Posted on November 26, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Providers | Tags: Privatisation |
Healthcare Republic | Nick Bostock | 26 November 2009
Unions have launched a campaign to protest at private healthcare firms working with the NHS but trying to derail proposals to extend public health provision in the US.
They point to the ‘irony’ of firms bidding for contracts to provide services for the UK NHS, but at the [...]
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Posted on November 26, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories, Providers | Tags: South East Health Ltd |
SEH Ltd website | accessed 26 November 2009
SEH is to set up and run Walk In Centres in Hastings and Eastbourne, on behalf of NHS Hastings and Rother and NHS East Sussex Downs and Weald respectively.
The two centres are part of a national £250million programme of “open door” health facilities, set up following the Darzi [...]
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Posted on November 26, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, Journals, Providers | Tags: Care UK |
British Medical Journal | By Clare Dyer | News | 26 November 2009
A primary care trust’s controversial decision to award a £20m [22m; $33m] contract for a GP led health centre in London to a private company has been put on hold after campaigners threatened legal action.
NHS Camden has now shelved its plan [...]
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Posted on November 25, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories, Providers, Social enterprise | Tags: Walk in centre, South East Health Ltd |
Bexhill-on-Sea Observer | Annemarie Field | NHS East Sussex Downs and Weald | 25 November 2009
TWO NEW clinics opened in Eastbourne this week.
A new state-of-the-art health centre at Eastbourne Railway Centre opened on Tuesday and offers a ‘walk in’ service to see a GP or nurse from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week.
And on Thursday [...]
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Posted on November 24, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, Providers, Reports/papers | Tags: Malling Health, Poly-system |
NHS Westminster | Board Meeting | 24 November 2009 [pdf]
Introduction
Following the discussions at the last Board, this paper provides an update on key developments within primary and community care in Westminster.
Queens Park GP Led Health Centre Summary Update
Karen Clinton, Assistant Director, Primary Care Commissioning | 3 November 2009
Temporary solution
The GP Led Health [...]
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Posted on November 23, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Providers | Tags: AH Medical Properties |
Manchester Evening News | 23 November 2009
A GREATER Manchester medical centre has changed hands as part of an £11.8m deal.
AH Medical Properties has bought Davyhulme Medical Centre, which opened earlier this year, from Sapphire Primary Care Developments, which was a subsidiary of Lloyds Pharmacy. AH also swooped for other properties in Rugeley, Staffordshire, Didcot, Oxfordshire, and Kincaidston, Ayr, as [...]
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Posted on November 17, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Providers, Social enterprise | Tags: Provider-commissioner, Your Healthcare |
Third Sector | By David Ainsworth | Kingston PCT | 17 November 2009
Kingston Primary Care Trust to launch separate provider
A major social enterprise will be created before the end of the year out of a south-west London NHS trust, as part of a drive to change how the NHS is structured.
Kingston Primary Care Trust said [...]
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Posted on November 17, 2009. Filed under: Arm's length providers, Federations, News stories, Providers, Social enterprise | Tags: APMS, Assura |
Pulse | By Nigel Praities | 17 November 2009
It’s two years since the RCGP proposed its ‘roadmap’ for general practice, which envisaged practices working together as federations, pooling skills and resources to broaden the range of services on offer in primary care.
Many at the time thought it would go the same way as the Middle East [...]
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Posted on November 12, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Providers | Tags: UnitedHealth |
Politics.co.uk | 12 November 2009
The Oadby and Wigston Conservative Group has raised serious concerns over the effect of the new 8-8 Health Centre in Oadby on patients and existing GP surgeries. Already district nurses housed in the Oadby Clinic, which is to be converted to an 8-8 centre, have been told to vacate the premises [...]
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