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South African Netcare acquires GHG for £2.2bn
Network Healthcare Holdings (Netcare) has acquired General Healthcare Group (GHG) from BC Partners for £2.2bn in one of the largest ever overseas investments in...
Providers and insurers should collaborate on collection of quality data
The UK independent healthcare sector needs to take a more collaborative approach to quality in order to differentiate its products from the NHS, according...
DH scraps seven projects from second ISTC wave
Seven of the 24 schemes from the second wave of independent sector treatment centres will not go ahead as planned after it emerged that...
New service launched to carry on operational and regulatory work of IHF
A new body has been set up to continue the regulatory and operational work of the Independent Healthcare Forum, which folded at the end...
Revenues down for NHS PPUs
Revenues generated by NHS Trusts from treating private patients in NHS hospitals have experienced a fall in real terms for the first time since...
Healthcare Commission will carry out clinical audit of ISTCs
The Healthcare Commission will carry out a full scale clinical audit of independent sector treatment centres (ISTCs) in response to criticism of the quality...
Doctors call for mixed funding for NHS
A group of 900 doctors has written open letters to the three main political parties urging them to adopt a mixed funding system to...
Healthcare Commission reports on work with independent sector
The Healthcare Commission has published a review of its work with the independent healthcare sector during 2004/05.On 31 March 2005, there were 1,426 independent...
NHS could shed 100,000 posts under reform agenda
The NHS workforce could decrease by at least 10% as government reforms such as payment by results, plurality of provision and practice-based commissioning place...
NHS waiting times
The number of NHS patients waiting more than six months for treatment rose slightly in January despite the government’s announcement that it had met...
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