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Under secretary of state for health Earl Howe has ordered NHS North West to break up a four-year framework contract between the region’s specialised commissioning group and mental health service providers. The move follows a Cooperation and Competition Panel (CCP) ruling that found the North West Specialised Commissioning Group (NWSCG) in breach of the CCP’s Principles and Rules for tendering (HMN December 2010) following a complaint by independent provider Hanover Healthcare. The CCP said that the use of four-year exclusive framework agreements for secure mental health services - which excludes new entrants - constituted the breach. Hanover, which operated a psychiatric hospital in Widnes, submitted the complaint following the hospital’s exclusion from tenders based on the fact that it is a new entrant.

Capio Nightingale Hospital, the Central London mental health hospital is to launch a new dedicated Stress and Trauma Service.

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) December 1998 The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 7 December 1998 at column 73) what...

Healthcare Market News (News) June 2005 The Department of Health (DH) is looking for independent sector providers to take over the running...

Community Care Market News (News) June 2005 The Welsh Health Minister has promised to bring health services up to world class standards...

Developed in partnership with Age UK West Sussex, The West Sussex Forum and Society for Later Life Advisers (SOLLA) along with support from the local Trading Standards department, the remit of Carewise is to help people to make the most of their money and to prevent their savings falling below the capital threshold at which point they would have call to reverting to council funding.

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) August 1998 The chief executive of the Medical Insurance Agency (MIA), Bob Bycroft, has been confirmed as an...

Community Care Market News (News) August 2003 Care Home operators who have not secured Criminal Records Bureau checks on new employees must...

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) October 2002 HSA has published a simple guide to the terminology used in healthcare and health protection...

Healthcare Market News (News) May 2003 The first NHS hospital to be run by a chief executive from the private sector will...