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Underperforming ISTCs unlikely to have contracts renewed
Wave One of the independent sector treatment centre (ISTC) programme is expected to be curtailed when contracts come up for renewal as some schemes...
FTs failing to exploit greater freedoms
Foundation trusts (FTs) are failing to use their greater freedoms to promote innovation and greater public involvement, MPs said last month.
The Health Select Committee...
Nuffield to open flagship health and fitness centre
Nuffield Health has taken the first step in delivering its new vision of integrated health and fitness with plans to open a £3m health...
NHS monopolies should be investigated
Primary care trusts (PCTs) and district hospitals constrain competition and severely restrict patient choice, a leading academic warned last month.In a new book on...
PCTs failing targets on choice and access
Primary care trusts (PCTs) must redouble their efforts in GP access and the provision of choice, Healthcare Commission chairman Sir Ian Kennedy said last...
Patient choice figures remain low
The Department of Health (DH) has published yet another set of disappointing results from its National Patient Choice Survey.It had been hoped that a...
Independent providers feel the squeeze
The revelation that the independent healthcare sector is feeling the pinch of the economic downturn is a bit like the governor of the bank...
Health minister to lead Constitution development
The Department of Health has announced that health minister Ann Keen has been appointed as the new ministerial lead for the NHS Constitution.Ms Keen...
Community mental health services could be better
Despite continued improvements in NHS trust community-based mental health services over the past year, there remains ‘some way to go’ before facilities and support...
Lib Dems take on mental health wards
Speaking at the Liberal Democrat party conference last month, health spokesperson Norman Lamb said that there is currently a ‘conspiracy of silence’ over poor...
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