‘Preferred provider’ policy comes under CCP scrutiny

In what has been hailed as a test case for Andy Burnham’s ‘NHS first’ policy, the Co-operation and Competition Panel (CCP) has formally accepted a joint complaint raised by the NHS Partners Network (NHSPN) and the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (Acevo), that Great Yarmouth and Waveney primary care trust (PCT) has breached…