GPs set up company to prevent ‘McDonald’s-style’ practices
Posted on February 8, 2010. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Privatisation |
Pulse | By Christian Duffin | 8 February 2010 An LMC is taking the extraordinary step of setting up a company to run out-of-contract practices on a short term basis – to block private sector companies stepping in. Essex LMCs expect to finalise plans and register with Companies House this week. The company, which as yet [...]
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 )BMA calls for private firms to be left out in the cold in 2010
Posted on January 4, 2010. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Privatisation |
Pulse | By Ian Quinn | 4 January 2010 The BMA has called on politicians to slam the brakes on private sector involvement within the NHS in 2010, as part of a New Year appeal to MPs. In a set of resolutions, which the body says would ‘protect the future of the NHS’, it puts [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Health matters: The privatisation of health care in Britain
Posted on December 22, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories | Tags: PFI, Privatisation |
FRFI 211 October / November 2009 | accessed 22 December 2009 Health care for London ‘The days of the district general hospital seeking to provide all services to a high enough standard are over’, said Sir Ara Darzi, responsible for the ten-year plan for reorganising health provision inLondon. Commissioned by Gordon Brown in 2007 and promoted [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )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 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Private provision of NHS services under threat
Posted on December 2, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, ISTC, News stories, Providers | Tags: Care UK, Privatisation, Spire Healthcare, UnitedHealth |
The Guardian | By Owen Bowcott | 2 December 2009 The government has reignited the political debate about private healthcare companies delivering NHS treatment. On a spotless hospital ward pensioners displaying fresh bandages were delighted their knees and hips had just been replaced by the NHS. The surgery had been as good as going private, they [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Privately-run walk-in centres ‘less cost effective’, study finds
Posted on December 1, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Privatisation, Walk in centre |
Pulse | By Lilian Anekwe | 1 December 2009 Walk-in centres could deliver better value for money if they are provided by the NHS instead of private contractors, primary care researchers have concluded. An evaluation of six pilot walk-in centres located in commuter train stations concluded that offering contracts to deliver these services to private providers [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Unions to investigate NHS providers that oppose US health reform
Posted on November 26, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Providers | Tags: Privatisation |
Healthcare Republic | Nick Bostock | 26 November 2009 Unions have launched a campaign to protest at private healthcare firms working with the NHS but trying to derail proposals to extend public health provision in the US. They point to the ‘irony’ of firms bidding for contracts to provide services for the UK NHS, but [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )New procurement rules ‘may increase private provision in NHS’, says DH
Posted on November 24, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Commissioning, Privatisation |
Pulse | By Nigel Praities | 24 November 2009 Switching to the NHS being the ‘preferred provider’ may increase private provision in the health service rather than reduce it, says a DH spokesperson. The claims come after newspaper reports of a backlash from business leaders and politicians against the Government’s decision to issue strict new guidelines [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Public and Private Healthcare Provision
Posted on November 19, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres | Tags: Privatisation |
Early Day Motion | EDM 109 | Diane Abbott | 19 November 2009 That this House believes that in order for healthcare to be truly public it must be free at the point of access and run by not-for-profit organisations; is concerned by recent developments which have seen private, profit-making companies awarded contracts to run [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )GP leaders ousted following private firm’s report
Posted on October 28, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Privatisation |
Pulse | By Lilian Anekwe | 28 October 2009 Exclusive: NHS managers are implementing draconian measures against GPs, including forcing local GP leaders to resign from their posts, following the recommendations of a private consultancy firm. A report by accountancy firm KPMG has set out a series of measures to bring cash-strapped NHS Hillingdon back into [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Alliance calls for NHS providers to get priority
Posted on October 26, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Press/News Releases | Tags: APMS, Marketisation, Privatisation |
Pulse | By Gareth Iacobucci | 26 October 2009 The NHS Alliance is urging the Government to slam the brakes on privatisation of NHS services by adopting new rules on APMS tendering. Under its proposals PCTs would be barred from approaching independent providers unless they could satisfy detailed criteria that existing NHS services were not meeting [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )PCT faces High Court over contract award
Posted on October 22, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories, Polyclinics | Tags: Care UK, Privatisation, UnitedHealth |
Pulse | By Gareth Iacobucci | 21 October 2009 A PCT is facing a High Court battle over its decision to award a GP-led health centre to private firm Care UK. Residents have begun legal action against NHS Camden over an alleged lack of consultation on the centre. Legal firm Leigh Day and Co has issued [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Revealed: NHS secretly wooed private firms over polyclinics
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 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )It’s a conspiracy theorist’s dream
Posted on October 7, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories, Polyclinics | Tags: Privatisation |
Pulse | Editorial | 7 October 2009 Politics, polyclinics and private companies – it’s the perfect recipe for paranoia. But as the saying goes, just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you. It turns out that all those suspicions that the Government was deliberately grooming the private sector for a key [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Privatisation is ‘Trojan horse’ threatening NHS
Posted on September 15, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Marketisation, Privatisation |
Healthcare Republic | By Neil Durham | 15 September 2009 Government-supported privatisation initiatives are the ‘Trojan horse’ that could severely undermine the NHS, according to Unite/CPHVA. The union backed motions at yesterday’s Trade Unions Congress in Liverpool yesterday calling for an end to the privatisation of the NHS, urging services to remain within the NHS [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Private Sector and the NHS
Posted on September 4, 2009. Filed under: Arm's length providers, GP-led health centres, News stories | Tags: Privatisation, Provider-commissioner, World Class Commissioning |
Pharmaceutical Field | 4 September 2009 The demands of world-class commissioning will mean increased collaboration between the NHS and the private sector. To stay ahead of the game, pharma companies need to be engaging with the private sector on a local level, argue Duncan Alexander and Mike Sobanja. Despite many initiatives and government policies, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Unite campaign to halt NHS privatisation backed by thousands
Posted on August 28, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Privatisation |
Healthcare Republic | 28 August 2009 Unite/CPHVA presented a letter signed by 3,000 NHS members to the DoH calling on health secretary Andy Burnham to halt the privatisation of the NHS. It was presented by Karen Reay, Unite’s national officer for health. The campaign is part of Unite’s Health B4 Profit campaign designed to preserve [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Tory MPs back expansion of private sector role in NHS
Posted on August 27, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Privatisation |
Pulse | By Gareth Iacobucci | 24 August 2009 The majority of Conservative MPs support moves to give the private sector an increasingly prominent role in the NHS in the future, a new survey has found. The cross-party poll of 150 MPs found that Conservatives, younger MPs and those from the south of England were most [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Tories back private healthcare plans
Posted on August 24, 2009. Filed under: Journals | Tags: Privatisation |
Health Service Journal | 24 August 2009 A poll has revealed that two-thirds of Conservative MPs support tax relief on private health insurance, reigniting controversy over the party’s commitment to the NHS. Chancellor Alistair Darling accused the party of having “two faces” when it came to healthcare. Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley insisted the Conservatives [...]
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