Friday, March 29, 2024
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After the fall

Ann McGuaran looks at what lies ahead for independent healthcare providers wanting to deliver large scale NHS community services after the collapse of Cambs and Peterborough

Business case – HMn meets RBS

HMn meets NatWest and RBS’ healthcare leaders Neil Garton (business and commercial banking), and Stuart Dean (corporate and institutional banking), to find out...

A road well travelled

Suhail Mirza looks at the Health Secretary’s latest measures to curb agency spending in the NHS and argues that perhaps it is time to stop demonising’ temporary staffing providers

HM meets… Joy Chamberlain

All eyes are on Elysium as the BC Partners backed business emerges onto the increasingly competitive mental health market. HM talks to chief executive...

Mike Neeb, chief executive of HCA International, talks to Suhail Mirza about his vision...

This year is one of anniversaries for Mike Neeb; he celebrates his 25th year with HCA and his tenth as chief executive of HCA International, which owns six leading private hospitals in London including the Portland, Wellington and London Bridge.

Laing &?Buisson Market Report launch: Mental Health

The NHS reforms implemented on 1 April mark a major move towards centralisation of procurement of secure and other specialised mental health hospital services in England, which is now one of the tasks of the new NHS Commissioning Board under what promises to be a highly centralised commissioning regime. Under the reforms, the new centrally-based NHS Commissioning Board takes over all secure commissioning: a task formerly undertaken on a regional basis. The Board will also hold commissioning responsibility for an expanded range of so-called prescribed services many of which had been (up until last month) commissioned on a local basis via the now defunct Primary Care Trusts (PCTs). Services which will now be commissioned on this central basis will include: adult eating disorders; mental health for deaf adults; gender identity disorders; severe obsessive compulsive disorders; severe personality disorders; neuropsychiatry services; and tier 4 child and adolescent mental health services. The move will have the effect of significantly narrowing the range of mental health services which will be left to the newly emergent Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), which have replaced PCTs.

HM meets… Philip Luce

Think about the London international patient market and The Cromwell Hospital is probably the first name that springs to mind. Maria Davies talks to...

What will the Autumn Budget mean for healthcare in 2018?

NHSPN CEO David Hare looks at what the £6.3bn of additional funding for the NHS in England really means for the NHS and the...

Laing & Buisson Annual PMI Conference

Healthcare Market News (Special Report) October 2004 PMI faced with its most significant period of change The private medical insurance product...

Business case – Dr Stephen Dunn

Dr Stephen Dunn, director of strategy for NHS Midlands and East talks to HMn about how the NHS can work with private providers across the UK