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Circle Healthcare, the private hospital provider, which runs Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust, has denied that it will receive any benefit if the Trust is granted a £3.5m working capital loan from the Department of Health. A spokesman explained that the money would go directly to the Trust to refurbish its critical care facilities and would be ring-fenced and not for the benefit of Circle’. He explained: This refurbishment was a long-standing plan from before Circle took over the franchise. Hospitals across the country apply for similar capital funding on similar terms every year and this is no different.’

St Andrew’s model of recovery

NHS England has announced details of the NHS Procurement Development Programme, which aims to help the NHS save £1.5 billion by 2015 to 2016.It...

Medacs Healthcare, the specialist recruitment agency, whose parent is global staffing solutions firm Impellam Group, in its half yearly results to 28 June 2013...

‘The NHS reforms implemented on 1 April marked a major move towards centralisation of procurement of secure and other specialised mental health hospital services...

Specialist recruitment agencies for the healthcare sector are under threat from new employment models being used by some NHS trusts. This has led to the...

Following Winterbourne View there must be robust consequences for Boards of directors where the organisation they lead fails to give proper care. The Department of...

St Andrew’s is trialling care pathways for 13-18 year olds to help them move towards regaining a meaningful life – here we find out...

The Office of Fair Trading referred the completed acquisition of Ultralase Ltd by Optimax Clinics Ltd to the Competition Commission in late July over...

British consumers fear financial pressures on the NHS will cause an imminent deterioration of the quality of services it offers and are now prepared...