Social enterprise
Social enterprise ‘costs’ PCT £600,000
Posted on December 17, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Social enterprise |
Healthcare Republic | Neil Durham | 17 December 2009
Plans by a Surrey PCT to hive off NHS services into a social enterprise could cost almost £600,000, according to Unite/CPHVA.
It believes the sum, £4 a head for Kingston’s population, could be better spent on services, such as speech and language therapists, health visitors, physiotherapists and community [...]
Creating an NHS family of shareholders
Posted on December 7, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Social enterprise | Tags: Privatisation, Provider-commissioner |
Pulse | Practical Commissioning | Focus on…..Becoming a provider | 7 December 2009
A GP-owned private company is coming into its stride with provision and has just secured a £30m urgent care contract with two other providers. Vale Health’s commercial director John Butler explains
When the Department of Health launched practice-based commissioning in March 2005, the 21 GP [...]
Health clinics open in Eastbourne
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 [...]
GPs and nurses lead DoH-backed social enterprises
Posted on November 24, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Social enterprise |
Healthcare Republic | Neil Durham | 24 November 2009
Three-fifths of the social enterprises the DoH is providing £30,000 backing for are led by either GPs, nurses or a combination of the two.
All frontline staff working in PCTs can set up a social enterprise to improve their services under the ‘right to request’ scheme. The first [...]
NHS services will be a social enterprise
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 [...]
How our social enterprise model moved PBC up a gear
Posted on November 17, 2009. Filed under: Commissioner, News stories, Social enterprise | Tags: Commissioning, PBC |
Pulse | Focus on…..Social Enterprise | 17 November 2009
Dr Bill Tamkin explains how becoming a social enterprise helped his PBC cluster get ahead in the game
Turning our PBC group into a social enterprise company has given us more clout with providers and the PCT. Manchester Practice-Based Commissioning (South) Ltd grew out of our consortium of [...]
Safety in numbers: the rise of the GP federation
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 [...]
The nuts and bolts of setting up a social enterprise
Posted on November 16, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Social enterprise | Tags: CIC, Foundation Trust, John Lewis, Nene Commissioning, Partnership UK, Provider-commissioner, Social Investment Business |
Pulse | 16 November 2009
Emma Wilkinson takes a look at what social enterprises can do for PBC
What is a social enterprise?
Social enterprises are businesses, but unlike limited companies that make profits to line the pockets of shareholders, they are driven by environmental or social principles, and surplus funds are reinvested to further those goals. So [...]
PCT rejects staff ballot on social enterprise transfer
Posted on November 13, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Social enterprise |
Healthcare Republic | Neil Durham | Kingston PCT | 13 November 2009
A Surrey PCT’s decision not to hold a staff ballot over proposals to create a social enterprise ‘rides roughshod over government policy’, according to union Unite/CPHVA.
The union says Kingston PCT’s plan to hive off NHS services into a social enterprise contravenes health secretary Andy [...]
Aetna UK
Posted on November 11, 2009. Filed under: Commissioner, Social enterprise | Tags: Aetna, CIC, Commissioning, PHD |
Aetna UK | accessed 11 November 2009
Aetna UK is dedicated to supporting PCTs and other commissioning authorities to improve patient outcomes and reduce overall costs. Aetna UK combines UK-based operations with U.S. expertise in order to customize solutions for its clients.
Being ‘commissioners’ ourselves, we truly understand what it takes to maximise health gain within available resources. [...]
Union calls for staff ballot on social enterprise plan
Posted on October 27, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Social enterprise |
Healthcare Republic | Neil Durham | Kingston PCT | 27 October 2009
Staff at a Surrey PCT should be balloted over proposals to hive off NHS services into a social enterprise, according to union Unite/CPHVA.
The call to Kingston PCT follows the announcement by the DoH that the NHS should be the ‘preferred provider’ of choice.
Unite describes [...]
The future of West Essex Community Health Services
Posted on October 26, 2009. Filed under: Arm's length providers, Integrated care, Providers, Reports/papers, Social enterprise |
NHS West Essex Community Health Services | September 2009 | accesssed 26 October 2009 (pdf)
West Essex Community Health Services (WECHS) is the current provider arm (arms length trading organisation) of NHS West Essex.
What is a social enterprise?
Social enterprise is a “badge” that a company or charity can adopt that brings certain benefits and says certain things about the ethos [...]
Herefordshire’s work scheme provider, Bizmatch, folds
Posted on October 18, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Providers, Social enterprise |
Hereford Times | 18 October 2009
ONE of Herefordshire’s best known social enterprises is facing liquidation.
Bizmatch, which provides employment opportunities for vulnerable adults, ceased trading this week.
Bizmatch is the trading arm of Hereford-based Workmatch, which gives work preparation and training at its Coningsby Street headquarters.
Herefordshire Council has been working with Workmatch this week to support those affected by [...]
Managers accused of failing to consult on social enterprise plan
Posted on October 14, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Social enterprise | Tags: Provider-commissioner |
Healthcare Republic | By Jonn Elledge | NHS Kent | 14 October 2009
NHS managers in Kent have been accused by Unite/CPHVA of pushing through a radical reorganisation of services ‘by stealth’.
Unite accuses Medway Community Healthcare of trying to make itself a social enterprise without consulting its 1,350 staff properly.
Unite believes that such a move would [...]
Two thirds of PCTs still to agree provider model
Posted on October 8, 2009. Filed under: Arm's length providers, Journals, Social enterprise | Tags: Foundation Trust |
Health Service Journal | By Steve Ford | 8 October 2009
Two thirds of primary care trust provider arms have not yet had their future form agreed by their board and strategic health authority, a survey suggests.
According to a survey of 83 PCT provider arms, one third said their service model had been agreed by their [...]
Newham Primary Care Social Enterprise
Posted on August 5, 2009. Filed under: Press/News Releases, Providers, Social enterprise | Tags: Harmoni |
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 [...]
Unite warns NHS staff face social enterprise transfer
Posted on July 13, 2009. Filed under: Arm's length providers, News stories, Social enterprise | Tags: Provider-commissioner |
Healthcare Republic | 13 July 2009
Union Unite/CPHVA is warning that NHS services for children and older people in Bedfordshire face being hived off into a social enterprise.
Plans to be outlined to staff on Wednesday could see 1,100 staff, and services for more than 100,000 children and 420,000 older people, come under the social enterprise [...]
DH to set up social enterprise support framework
Posted on June 23, 2009. Filed under: Journals, Social enterprise |
Health Service Journal | 22 June 2009 | Helen Crump
The Department of Health has launched a procurement drive to set up a framework of organisations to help primary care trust provider arms become social enterprises.
The department is hoping to recruit a panel of business support providers to offer PCTs “tailored support that is unlikely [...]
Transforming health and social care: the Social Enterprise Investment Fund
Posted on June 17, 2009. Filed under: Reports/papers, Social enterprise |
Department of Health | 17 June 2009
This document contains information and guidance about the Department of Health’s Social Enterprise Investment Fund (SEIF) and how the fund supports social enterprises in health and social care.
Download Transforming health and social care: the Social Enterprise Investment Fund (PDF, 1004K)
A fund to transform health and social care
We want health [...]
GP condemns PCTs for appointing single-faith provider
Posted on June 15, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, Press/News Releases, Social enterprise |
Healthcare Republic | 12 June 2009
A single-faith provider has been selected by two PCTs to provide primary care services, the LMCs conference heard.
The selection contravenes a fundamental principle of the NHS, it was claimed.
Staff working for the provider are required to sign up to its values and vision.
Manchester GP Dr Mohammed Jiva told the [...]
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