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DH announces five more primary care contracts
The government’s Fairness in Primary Care procurement programme stepped up a pace last month after the Department of Health (DH) announced five more invitations...
Lack of competition rules could drive independent providers out of NHS market
Independent sector providers are in danger of withdrawing from the NHS market amid growing concerns that their involvement is deliberately being kept at the...
Conservatives committed to continued independent sector involvement in NHS
The independent sector would retain its role as a provider of NHS services under a Conservative government, the Tory leadership revealed last month.
In its...
New PM makes clean sweep of DH ministerial team
Independent sector providers have given a cautious welcome to the ministerial changes at the Department of Health (DH) announced by new prime minister Gordon...
Welsh Assembly set to eliminate NHS’s use of private sector
The new Welsh assembly coalition government has pledged to end the use of private hospitals by the NHS in Wales by 2011.The pledge is...
Unsettling times ahead as new health team launches review of NHS
Independent sector providers remain optimistic that the government’s market-based NHS reforms will continue under Gordon Brown’s leadership, despite the wide-ranging review of the NHS...
NHS Partners Network joins NHS Confederation
The NHS Partners Network has joined the NHS Confederation after a vote to admit affiliate members as core members was ratified at the Confederation’s...
Scottish minister signals end to private sector involvement in NHS
It was never going to be the most passionate of relationships, but it seems that the Scottish government’s brief love affair with the independent...
NHS funded pregnancy terminations continue to rise
The number of terminations of pregnancy performed in the private sector under NHS contract increased in 2006, continuing the upward trend begun in the...
Oasis bidding war rages as rivals up the stakes
A victor in the bidding war for dental services provider Oasis Healthcare was yet to emerge as HMN went to press with rival bidders...
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