Legally speaking – The changing procurement landscape

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The procurement landscape is changing with an ever increasing number of challenges to procurement processes. The healthcare sector is by no means immune from this...

CCP delivers verdict on consultants’ restrictions

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Delivering its much-anticipated final report into the highly contentious issue of NHS consultants’ use of their non-contracted hours, the Co-operation and Competition Panel (CCP)...

Mental Health Issues Take Centre Stage

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Robert Potter reports on the main talking points at this year’s Indepedent Healthcare Convention. The extent of parity in NHS commissioning of services, care pathway...

Legally speaking – Assisted suicide: what does the law say?

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Medical intervention in the end of life stages is always advancing. With this, similar to arguments around the use of medical interventions in very premature...

Case study – ADI telehealth

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Healthcare services in the UK will soon reach breaking point. The combined pressures of an ageing – and growing – population, a decrease in the...

NHS Continuing Care costs could escalate

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In what could amount to a string of landmark decisions with the potential to affect the financial support given to a growing number of...

NHS efficiency drive – a catalyst for change?

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Lawyer Ross Griffiths speaks to Robert Potter about the commercial opportunities that could result from the latest NHS efficiency driveIn its recent publication Dealing...

Flexibility the key to weather recession storm

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In just 12 short months, the seemingly stable PMI market appears to have been cast into a state of flux, amid the stormy seas...

‘Retired Incomers’ benefit from pioneering cancer centre

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Robert Potter speaks to CancerPartners?UK about the forthcoming opening of its new centre and how it is bucking the recession to roll out a...

CCP will be influential in shaping market says chairman Lord Carter

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As the Competition and Co-operation Panel awaits its first formal case, independent sector providers are watching closely to see whether it really can deliver...
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