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DH announces five more primary care contracts
The government’s Fairness in Primary Care procurement programme stepped up a pace last month after the Department of Health (DH) announced five more invitations...
Welsh Assembly set to eliminate NHS’s use of private sector
The new Welsh assembly coalition government has pledged to end the use of private hospitals by the NHS in Wales by 2011.The pledge is...
£2m expansion at BUPA Washington
Building work has commenced on a £2m project to expand capacity at BUPA Hospital Washington, near Sunderland. The expansion is designed primarily to accommodate...
Leveraged buy outs to come under scrutiny
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has announced plans to rein in private equity companies following a series of claims over the long-term damage their...
Ravenscourt Park back in private hands
The Ravenscourt Park Hospital in Hammersmith has been sub-leased to a private company, which plans to turn the former NHS diagnostic and treatment centre...
ISTC wave two scaled back yet again as another scheme is scrapped
The Department of Health (DH) has indicated that the second wave of independent sector treatment centre (ISTC) procurement will fall short of the £500m...
New flouroscopy facility at BUPA Cardiff
BUPA Hospital Cardiff is offering radiology patients a range of new procedures following a £400,000 refit of its fluoroscopy facility.Fluoroscopy captures real-time images and...
Unsettling times ahead as new health team launches review of NHS
Independent sector providers remain optimistic that the government’s market-based NHS reforms will continue under Gordon Brown’s leadership, despite the wide-ranging review of the NHS...
Private sector expenditure
John Redwood asked (5 July 2007: Column 1149W) what the budgetary allocation is for expenditure by the government on healthcare from private sector providers...
Nuffield launches debate on the language of healthcare
Nuffield Hospitals has initiated a debate on the language used to describe, deliver and manage healthcare.Supported by BT, the Healthspeak debate comes at a...
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