Posted on January 19, 2010. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Competition |
Pulse | By Gareth Iacobucci | 19 January 2010 The Department of Health has become embroiled in a row over a GP practice’s plans to open a branch surgery, after a PCT refused to allow the development to proceed, despite the Co-operation and Competition Panel (CCP) ruling in the practice’s favour. The panel last month ruled [...]
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Posted on January 18, 2010. Filed under: News stories, Providers | Tags: Circle, Competition |
Pulse | By Gareth Iacobucci | 18 January 2010 The Liberal Democrats have joined the Tories in condemning health secretary Andy Burnham’s pledge to treat the NHS as the ‘preferred provider’. Speaking at private firm Circle Health’s conference in Bath last week, Liberal Democrat health spokesman Norman Lamb said the move to give NHS providers at [...]
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Posted on September 24, 2009. Filed under: Journals, Providers | Tags: Competition, King's Fund, World Class Commissioning |
Health Service Journal | BY REBECCA EVANS | 24 September 2009 Questions have been raised over the implications for competition and world class commissioning of health secretary Andy Burnham’s statement that the NHS is the “preferred provider” of services. Previous Department of Health policy had been that “any willing provider” should be considered when commissioningservices. But in [...]
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Posted on June 17, 2009. Filed under: Integrated care, Journals | Tags: Competition, Foundation Trust |
Health Service Journal | By Sally Gainsbury | 16 June 2009 One of the Department of Health’s integrated care pilot schemes is to be investigated by the co-operation and competition panel to see if it breaches merger, choice and competition rules. Under pilot scheme, City Hospitals Sunderland foundation trust plans to merge with a local [...]
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Posted on June 10, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Competition, Privatisation |
Healthcare Republic | 10 June 2009 Private firms could use competition rules to force PCTs to break up existing GPs’ contracts, according to the panel responsible for regulating competition in the NHS. Theoretically, any provider can appeal to the NHS Cooperation and Competition Panel (CCP) to force a PCT to put GP services out to [...]
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Posted on May 7, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Reports/papers | Tags: Commercial Support Unit, Competition |
Department of Health | 7 May 2009 Over the coming years, the NHS faces the challenge of continuing to improve the quality, accessibility and range of services for patients while driving efficiency hard and securing better value for money for the taxpayer. Reforms over the past decade – plurality in provision, improved commissioning, greater choice, [...]
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Posted on May 7, 2009. Filed under: Journals | Tags: Commercial Support Unit, Competition |
Health Services Journal | BY HELEN CRUMP | 7 May 2009 A £20m network of around 20 commercial support units will be set up to boost primary care trusts’ efforts to stimulate the market. The Department of Health’s commercial strategy, expected today, confirms that it will axe the commercial directorate and the NHS Purchasing and Supply [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Competition, Ernst & Young, Healthcare market |
Pulse | By Steve Nowottny | 27 April 2009 The NHS been advised by management consultants to ramp up competition between GPs by providing each patient with a choice of up to five local practices. A briefing document by Ernst and Young, circulated to PCTs by Government policy body NHS Primary Care Contracting, concludes a high [...]
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Posted on April 18, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories | Tags: Competition |
Pulse | By Nigel Praities | 2 April 2009 The forced introduction of Darzi centres risks is actively discouraging private sector involvement in primary care, say academics. The paper from primary care researchers at the University of Birmingham says the Government’s drive to stimulate competition between providers is likely to back-fire as private providers are [...]
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