Laing & Buisson launches the Independent Healthcare Awards 2006

Laing & Buisson – the UK’s foremost independent healthcare analysts – has launched the inaugural Independent Healthcare Awards, to be held on 21 September...

Nurses leaders threaten industrial action in pay row

Nurses leaders have offered a thinly-veiled threat of industrial action by NHS nurses should Government not meet their demands for a three per cent...

UnitedHealth set to provide GP services for Derbyshire PCTs

UnitedHealth Group Europe has been announced as the preferred bidder to take over two GP practices in Derbyshire. The US-owned company, which is headed...

Government plans to divest PCTs of provider functions ‘clumsy’ say MPs

MPs have attacked government plans to contract out services provided by primary care trusts (PCTs), describing its approach as ‘clumsy and cavalier’.In a report...

Former health advisor urges government to open up primary care market

A former government health advisor has urged ministers to open up primary care services to a wider range of providers in areas where there...

Hewitt defends St Barts PFI review

Patricia Hewitt has defended the government’s decision to put the biggest ever PFI hospital project on hold, saying she needed to be certain that...

Trust pushes for decision on PFI project

University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust is urging ministers to make a decision on the future of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital PFI project. The trust...

NHS LIFT projects to open at rate of one a week

The Department of Health (DH) has announced a new wave of NHS Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) projects. According to the DH, new GP...

Independent providers to bid for NHS GP contracts

Independent healthcare providers will be invited to bid to run GP services in under-doctored areas under a national procurement exercise due to begin this...

London Bridge to open £4m outpatients unit in City

The London Bridge hospital is opening a new outpatients centre at the foot of the Nat West Tower in the City of London. The...