Privates win access to NHS pension

NHS staff who are compulsorily transferred (under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) regulations) to private operators providing NHS services are now able to...

Call for Monitor and CQC?roles to be clarified

MPs on the Health Committee have repeated the view that the parallel roles of Monitor and Care Quality Commission, criticized in the Francis Report...

Healthcare UK launches in Dubai

Healthcare UK, a joint initiative between the Department of Health, the NHS Commissioning Board and UK Trade and Investment, has been launched to help...

PHP invests in medical centres

Primary Health Properties, the primary healthcare facilities provider, has acquired a standing let medical centre investment and is to fund two additional medical centre...

Circle preferred bidder for Notts ITSC

Circle looks set to retain its stewardship of the Nottingham Independent NHS Treatment Centre following an announcement revealing that it is preferred bidder to...

Consultancy spending more stable

Spending on consultancy services by Trusts was more stable in 2011/2012, showing only a small real decline following sharp cutbacks a year earlier which...

St Andrew’s gets Oxford vote

The Oxford University research team behind a newly published report on healthcare management from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has praised the UK’s largest mental health charity, St Andrew’s Healthcare, as a shining star’ and best-in-class’.

Commissioning climb-down

There has been a Government back down after calls for a rewording of controversial regulations concerning commissioning of healthcare services. Without changes it was argued...

Albion Ventures sells Nelson House

Albion Ventures, one of the largest independent venture capital investors in the UK, has sold Nelson House, a mental health rehabilitation hospital to a...

Public Accounts Committee concerns

Circle suffered a torrid month after the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) found that the company was not achieving the savings it expected to at...