UnitedHealth quits primary care and sells off surgeries to The Practice

Posted on April 20, 2011. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , |

Pulse – UnitedHealth quits primary care and sells off surgeries to The Practice.

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PCT and UnitedHealth end deal

Posted on August 20, 2010. Filed under: Commissioner, News stories | Tags: |

HSJ |18 AUGUST, 2010 | BY STEVE FORD NHS Northamptonshire has terminated its contract for commissioning support with UnitedHealth UK a year early. The primary care trust signed a three year deal with UnitedHealth, under the framework for procuring external support for commissioners, in 2008. The NHS landscape has changed significantly since the deal first began; PCT priorities have [...]

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Private provision of NHS services under threat

Posted on December 2, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, ISTC, News stories, Providers | Tags: , , , |

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 On a spotless hospital ward pensioners displaying fresh bandages were delighted their knees and hips had just been replaced by the NHS.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 [...]

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Serious concern over damaging effect of new 8-to-8 health centre in Oadby

Posted on November 12, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Providers | Tags: |

Politics.co.uk | 12 November 2009 The Oadby and Wigston Conservative Group has raised serious concerns over the effect of the new 8-8 Health Centre in Oadby on patients and existing GP surgeries. Already district nurses housed in the Oadby Clinic, which is to be converted to an 8-8 centre, have been told to vacate the [...]

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New Era for GP-led Healthcare as NHS Leicester City names preferred bidders in £15m investment

Posted on November 10, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, Press/News Releases, Providers | Tags: , |

NHS Leicester City | News Release | 10 November 2009 (pdf) Patients in Leicester will get a huge boost to their health care thanks to a £15million investment for new General Practitioner (GP) practices and a GP-led health centre. This means two new GP practices and a new GP-led health centre are to open next year with a [...]

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Company struggling to find site for new health centre

Posted on October 30, 2009. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: |

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 [...]

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PCT faces High Court over contract award

Posted on October 22, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories, Polyclinics | Tags: , , |

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 [...]

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Top GP slams Camden NHS as ‘megalomaniac and misleading’

Posted on October 1, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories, Providers | Tags: , , |

Camden News | By Tom Foot | 1 October 2009 No evidence that for-profits surgeries policy is beneficial to patients, she says. THE President of the Royal College of GPs has launched a stinging attack on Camden’s health chiefs for failing to listen to patients. Dr Iona Heath, a partner at the Caversham Practice in [...]

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Patients urged to boycott new private super surgery

Posted on August 27, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories | Tags: , |

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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Recession forces Chilvers McCrea to drop APMS contract

Posted on April 28, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Providers | Tags: , , , |

Pulse | By Gareth Iacobucci | 28 April 2009 A squeeze on bank lending is forcing private providers to ditch APMS contracts, Pulse can reveal. Chilvers McCrea Healthcare, which manages over 30 practices across the UK, has been forced to terminate its contact to run an APMS practice in Essex because of the tough economic climate. [...]

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NHS chiefs plan to speed up privatisation in primary care

Posted on April 17, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Providers | Tags: , , , , , |

Pulse | By Gareth Iacobucci | 9 March 2009 PCTs are set to dramatically ramp up efforts to entice the private sector into primary care after failing to meet Government targets to increase competition. A series of detailed SHA assessments of PCTs commissioning skills found they had not gone far enough to open up the primary [...]

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GP-led firms are the big APMS winners

Posted on April 17, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories | Tags: , , , , , , , |

Pulse | By Gareth Iacobucci | 18 November 2008 Companies led by GPs are the big winners in the Government’s rollout of APMS services and are dominating the bidding for services across the country, a new analysis reveals. But a new breed of business-minded GPs are blurring the boundaries between general practice and the private sector [...]

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