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Stop/start reform ‘frustrating’
The government’s stop/start approach to reshaping healthcare in the UK could become a barrier to independent sector investment, according to a new survey carried...
IC appoints chief
The Information Centre for health and social care has appointed Tim Straughan as its new chief executive. In the role Mr Straughan will become...
Priory grabs Scott, while Southern Cross loses another
The man who steered Southern Cross Healthcare through a period which saw it take in private equity investment before making the leap to public...
Priory to treat cannabis related psychosis in new children’s unit
The Priory Hospital Roehampton will admit children as young as 12 in a new in-patient unit which will treat a range of conditions including...
GPs and private providers
Ben Chapman asked (29 November 2007: Column 715W) what assessment the Department of Health (DH) has made of the extent of private companies’ co-operation...
Diagnostic scans
Mike Penning asked (19 November 2007: Column 620W) what percentage of diagnostic scans in the NHS were carried out by private healthcare companies in...
Huntercombe appointments
The Huntercombe Hospital in Stafford has appointed Dr Gordon Bates, child and adolescent psychiatrist, to head a new assessment service. The centre will offer...
Medicentres still deep in deficit
Better late than never for the release of accounts showing that walk-in surgery provider Medicentres (UK) Limited carried forward a massive loss despite upping...
‘Kick in the teeth’ for providers as ISTC and diagnostics contracts axed
Months of uncertainty over the future of wave two independent sector treatment centre (ISTC) and diagnostics procurement ended in calamity last month after health...
Progress of PbC has been limited says Audit Commission
The introduction of practice based commissioning (PbC) is making limited progress and has been hampered by reorganisation in the NHS and a lack of...
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