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Primary care procurement finally under way
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has finally launched the government’s Fairness in Primary Care Procurement (FPCP) programme, which focuses on deprived areas with significant GP...
CATS services
Lindsay Hoyle asked (6 March 2007: Column 1949W) what steps the Department of Health (DH) has taken to ensure that the process to determine...
Atos Origin diagnostics contract ‘suspended’
The government’s diagnostics procurement programme was dealt another blow last month after a pilot contract with Atos Origin in the North West was suspended...
Essex ISTCs
Bob Spink asked (6 March 2007: Column 1964W) how many day beds and overnight beds will be provided at the proposed independent sector treatment...
Transfer of out-of-hours care provision ‘shambolic’, MPs claim
Preparations for the transfer of out-of-hours care from GPs to primary care trusts (PCTs) were shambolic and doctors were the only people to to...
Affinity women’s unit
Affinity Healthcare has opened a 28-bed specialist women’s unit at its Middleton St George Hospital near Darlington.The new Oak Unit began admitting patients last...
Lacklustre results from Paycare
Paycare, the Wolverhampton-based provider of healthcare cash plans by means of a mutual contribution model as a company limited by guarantee and without share...
Charity in bid to take over NHS hospital
A charitable trust has put forward a £20m plan to take over the running of an NHS hospital in Surrey.Epsom and St Helier NHS...
Surgery suspended at Nations ISTC
A number of surgical procedures have been suspended at Nations Healthcare’s Eccleshill Treatment Centre pending an investigation into the death of a man treated...
BUPA presses ahead with network launch
BUPA Health Insurance has faced down opposition from consultants and will press ahead with the launch of its controversial ophthalmology network.
The scheme, which has...
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