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Company struggling to find site for new health centre
Leicester Mercury | NHS Leicester County & Ruthland | 30 October 2009
A private company brought in to run a new health centre in Leicestershire is struggling to find premises to open.
United Health Primary Care, which won the contract from NHS Leicestershire County and Rutland, was due to have the centre up and running by the [...]
High cost of new Blackburn health centre
Lancashire Telegraph | By Chris Hopper | NHS Blackburn with Darwen | 28 September 2009
A NEW health centre due to be built for £21million will cost taxpayers more than £50million, it has emerged.
Health bosses last month secured private finance for the facility, in Alma Street, off Barbara Castle Way, Blackburn, with a deal to lease [...]
Firm chosen to build new health centre for Forres
The Press & Journal | By Ryan Crighton | 5 September 2009
GALLIFORD TRY WINS £22.3M DEAL FOR THREE PROJECTS
A construction firm has landed a £22million contract to design and build three new healthcare centres in the north-east.
The deal, which will finally mean work starting on the long-awaited new hospital at Forres, will also see four [...]
Out-of-Hours
NHS Choices | accessed on 28 July 2009
Since 2004, GPs have been able to choose whether or not to provide 24-hour care for their patients.
The out-of-hours (OOH) period is from 6.30pm to 8.00am on weekdays and all day at weekends and bank holidays.
Currently, some GP surgeries deal with OOH services themselves as well as having normal surgery [...]
BMA warns of ‘backdoor privatisation’ of Hull’s GP services
Healthcare Republic | 24 July 2009
Primary care services in Hull are being ‘privatised through the back door’, the BMA has warned.
NHS Hull is converting its provider arm into a commercial company, provisionally known as the City Health Care Partnership Community Interest Company (CIC).
The company will be owned by its staff, and will ‘re-invest’ any [...]
Alternative Providers of Medical Services (APMS)
Department of Health – last accessed on 15 July 2009
Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) is a contractual route through which PCTs can contract with a wide range of providers to deliver services tailored to local needs.It offers substantial opportunities for the restructuring of services to offer greater patient choice, improved access and greater responsiveness to [...]
GPs given contract for walk-in centre
Sunderland Echo | By Julie Wilson | Sunderland tPCT | 10 February 2009
Doctors who took over their own GP practice have been awarded the contract to run Wearside’s new walk-in centre.
Patients at Encompass Healthcare fought for two years to keep family doctors Ashley Liston and Tracey Lucas, amid fears that they could be forced out [...]
Atos Healthcare: NHS Walk-in Centres
Atos Healthcare
Flexible access to primary care is the key to delivering health services that meet the needs of modern society.
The NHS introduced seven new Walk-in Centres (WiCs) in England, run by independent sector providers. These complement existing primary care services such as GPs and hospital accident and emergency departments. They provide patients with a range [...]
Understanding healthcare markets: A PCT guide to market analysis and market management
Ernst & Young | 8 April 2009
This guide is intended as a short introduction for PCTs to market analysis and market management
Section 1 sets out a framework for defining healthcare markets and considering the sate of competition in these markets.
Section 2 sets out a framework for analysis markets and understanding their current and future ‘dynamism’.
Section [...]
