Posted on June 23, 2011. Filed under: Closure | Tags: Atos Healthcare, Care UK |
Bureau of Investigative Journalism | June 23rd, 2011 | by Melanie Newman Walk-in health centres are closing or having their opening hours reduced because they have proved so popular they are becoming unaffordable. Most of the centres opened less than three years ago under a flagship Labour scheme aimed at improving access to primary care and reducing [...]
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Posted on October 25, 2010. Filed under: Closure | Tags: Care UK |
Journal Live | 25 Oct 2010 A CITY centre walk-in clinic looks set to close after health chiefs decided it is not good value for money. The centre at the Jury’s Inn Hotel, in Newcastle city centre, opened in August 2006, but it is likely to close at the end of April next year. The clinic [...]
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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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Posted on January 15, 2010. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Care UK, Conservative |
Healthcare Republic | Neil Durham | 15 January 2010 The Tories are insisting ‘donations from private individuals in no way influence policy-making decisions’ after private health provider Care UK donated £21,000 to fund the personal office of shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley. Healthcare Republic has reported that Care UK runs GP practices, out-of-hours centres, clinical [...]
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Posted on January 15, 2010. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories | Tags: APMS, Care UK, Conservative |
Pulse | By Gareth Iacobucci | 15 January 2010 Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has accepted a large cash donation from the wife of the head of one of the biggest private firms to provide services for the NHS, it has emerged. The wife of John Nash, chairman of Care UK, whose portfolio includes numerous APMS [...]
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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 19, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories | Tags: Care UK |
Camden New Journal | By Tom Foot | NHS Camden | 19 November 2009 PATIENTS are celebrating after plans to hand control of a new super-sized doctors’ surgery to a private company were dramatically put on hold. Care UK had been due to run the new health centre in Euston but protesters argued the decision [...]
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Posted on November 17, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories | Tags: Care UK |
Pulse | By Gareth Iacobucci | NHS Camden | 17 November 2009 Exclusive: Legal challenge forces PCT to consult public and shelve plans to award contract to private firm A PCT has been forced to shelve plans to award a Darzi centre contract to a private firm and ask patients if they want the new service, [...]
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Posted on October 18, 2009. Filed under: Providers | Tags: Care UK |
By Richard Baum | 18 October 2009 For reasons beyond my comprehension, the world doesn’t stand still when I’m on holiday. In fact, lots of things have gone on in Prestwich whilst I’ve been away. One of them is that a Planning application has been lodged by Care UK for the siting of a mobile Health [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories, Polyclinics, Providers | Tags: Alliance Boots, Ashley House, Assura, Atos Consulting, Care UK, General Healthcare Group, HCA International, Marketisation, Nuffield Hospitals, Privatisation, PWC, UBS |
Pulse | By Steve Nowottny | 7 October 2009 Exclusive: The NHS secretly courted private companies at a series of high-level meetings to encourage them to compete for the new wave of polyclinics and GP-led health centres, Pulse can reveal. Directors, chief executives and other senior figures from a who’s who of private health providers were [...]
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Posted on September 26, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories | Tags: Care UK |
Hackney Citizen | By Josh Loeb | City & Hackney PCT | 26 September 2009 Plans for private companies to run Hackney health services condemned. PATIENTS are up in arms at plans to privatise a key part of Hackney’s health services. Contracts to run two health centres have been put out to tender amid [...]
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Posted on September 9, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Care UK |
Healthcare Republic | By Neil Durham | 09 September 2009 A doctor and former managing director of Care UK’s healthcare division is to become chief executive of a Norfolk PCT in November. Dr Sushil Jathanna, 52, replaces GP Dr Paul Zollinger-Read, interim chief executive at NHS Great Yarmouth and Waveney, since the departure of Mike Stonard [...]
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Posted on August 27, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories | Tags: Care UK, UnitedHealth |
Camden News Journal | By Tom Foot | 27 August 2009 Health campaigners warn of slippery slope to privatising NHS ANTI-PRIVATISATION campaigners are calling on patients to boycott a new “super-surgery” in Euston. Private company Care UK as been named the preferred bidder to run the GP-led health centre ahead of a consortium of south [...]
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Posted on August 26, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, Press/News Releases, Providers | Tags: Care UK |
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 [...]
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Posted on July 30, 2009. Filed under: Press/News Releases | Tags: Care UK, Walk in centre |
People who live and work in Calderdale will now be able to access GP services without an appointment. Walk-in centres are being opened at Horne Street Medical Centre, Halifax and Todmorden Health Centre, Todmorden. They will provide urgent care for patients whose illness or condition does not warrant a visit to A&E, but does [...]
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Posted on July 30, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, Press/News Releases | Tags: Care UK, Walk in centre |
Calderdale & Huddersfield PCTs | Newsletter Issue 6 | Spring 2009 Calderdale’s PracticePlus programme has resulted in Care UK being appointed as the preferred provider after an open competition. The programme will bring more GPs to Calderdale, improve access to services for people in the Borough and pave the way for reductions in health inequalities. Care UK will be providing GP-led health services for up to [...]
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