Tories receive £21,000 donation from private health firm
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 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Lansley accepts cash donation from wife of Care UK chief
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 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Tories open up talks with private firms
Posted on January 13, 2010. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Conservative, Privatisation |
Pulse | By Ian Quinn, Gareth Iacobucci | 13 January 2010 The Conservatives have opened talks with a series of private firms after pledging to step up the role of the independent sector in the NHS. The party told Pulse talks were ongoing with ‘a wide range’ of providers from the private and voluntary sectors, as [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Tory boost for providers
Posted on January 6, 2010. Filed under: News stories, Providers | Tags: Conservative |
Pulse | 6 January 2010 Any provider able to deliver a service that meets required standards and is within a NHS tariff will be allowed to offer their services to patients, the Conservatives have announced in their draft health manifesto. The document says the Tories want to ‘open up the NHS to include new independent and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )BMA rejects Tory ‘GP-led rationing’
Posted on December 10, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Commissioning, Conservative |
Healthcare Republic | GP newspaper | By Richard Staines | 10 December 2009 As the BMA launches its general election manifesto, Richard Staines looks at the political battle lines being drawn. The BMA is on a collision course with the Conservatives over plans to hand GPs control of NHS commissioning. The Conservatives, favourites to win the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Tories back GPs and patients to control NHS funding
Posted on November 17, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Conservative, PBC |
Healthcare Republic | Joe Lepper | 17 November 2009 A National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) ‘manifesto’ calling for GPs and patients to control NHS funding could become a blueprint for primary care reform in the next parliament, after it was endorsed by the Conservative Party. The manifesto says practice-based commissioning (PBC) has failed in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Andrew Lansley warns against ‘chilling’ preferred provider policy
Posted on November 11, 2009. Filed under: Journals, News stories | Tags: Conservative |
Health Service Journal | By Charlotte Shantry | 11 November 2009 A Conservative government would return to an “any willing provider” model, the shadow health secretary has said. Addressing delegates at last week’s NHS Employers conference in Birmingham, Andrew Lansley said all primary care trust providers should be encouraged to request to become social enterprises or apply for community [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Exclusive: Tories to end UK GP contract and write new one
Posted on October 28, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Conservative |
Healthcare Republic | By Tom Ireland | 28 October 2009 Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has confirmed there will be a new GP contract if the Conservatives take office. After his speech to the NHS Alliance conference in Manchester last week, Mr Lansley told GP newspaper that in order to put commissioning responsibility in the hands of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Backing for shadow health minister advising private GP firm
Posted on August 19, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Conservative, Endeavour Health, Privatisation |
Healthcare Republic | By Neil Durham | 19 August 2009 Conservative leader David Cameron has backed shadow health minister Lord McColl who is under fire for advising a firm which offers customers an alternative to NHS doctors. Lord McColl is on the advisory board of Endeavour Health, which promises quick and convenient access to a network of private [...]
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