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GMC launches new registration framework
The General Medical Council (GMC) has introduced a new registration framework for doctors in the UK.The cornerstone of the new framework is the abolition...
ISTC programme Norman Lamb asked (28 November 2007: Column 563W) how many independent...
Ben Bradshaw: There are 23 fixed site wave one ISTCs in operation and six walk-in centres with a commuter focus.
There is also a mobile...
Alpha returns to losses as investment continues
Low secure and adolescent mental health services provider Alpha Hospitals has moved back into loss a year after posting its first profit.The company, which...
NHS must embrace market based reform ‘out of respect’ for its founding principles
The government’s ‘half-hearted’ attempts to introduce market based reforms have resulted in an NHS where inequality and inefficiency prevail, according to a new report...
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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