Public-private disease management pilot
Healthcare Market News (News) March 2004 Haringey Teaching Primary Care Trust (TPCT) and global medicines company Pfizer Ltd are undertaking a 12-month...
Consultation delays ACO introduction
Plans by NHS England (NHSE) to introduce Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs) have been put on hold whilst a 12-week consultation looking at the contracting...
Monitor assesses GP services
Monitor is to examine the commissioning and provision of GP services in England to see if there are barriers preventing patients from securing access to the best possible care. The health sector regulator wants to hear from patients, GPs, commissioners and other providers of primary and secondary care.
MRI scans
Healthcare Market News (Parliament) April 2005 Paul Burstow asked (1 March 2005: Column 1081) what funding has been identified to cover additional...
Assura clinches Surrey deal
Assura Medical Limited has fended off competition from a flagship social enterprise to secure preferred bidder status in one of the largest community services tenders undertaken by the NHS to date.
Pay levels vary for GP practice managers
Healthcare Market News (News) December 1998 GP practice managers currently earn an average of £20,000, according to a recently published survey by...
Strong growth in NHS PPU revenues for 2001/02
Healthcare Market News (News) April 2003 NHS private patient units (PPUs) increased their revenues by 7.6% during 2001/02, almost double the rate...
Care UK offers cataract surgery
A Care UK operated NHS health centre in Rochdale claims to be the first in the UK to perform cataract surgery in a non-hospital, community-based setting.
Contract confusion as Capio snatches Mercury ITCs
Healthcare Market News (News) March 2004 Britain's established private sector hospitals have taken their first scalp in the ongoing bidding war to...
New service for GP payments to launch
An improved service for calculating payments for GP practices across England has gone live after early adopter testing in four areas.