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The BBC reports that the Thornbury Nursing Services staffing agency is routinely charging up to £2,000 a shift to  provide last-minute freelance nurses to NHS hospitals. Glen Burley, chief executive … Read more

John Hutton signed off thirteen NHS Private Finance Initiative (PFI) building projects as a Labour health minister in 2002 (see footnote). Last month he was appointed to speak up for private sector investors ahead … Read more

An international private equity firm has bought up a UK-based agency that employs NHS doctors and nurses outside their contracted hours – to do “insourcing” work in NHS hospitals, reports the Financial Times. … Read more

The (£ paywalled) Times has reported that one of the outcomes of Rishi Sunak’s controversial taskforce on boosting NHS contracts with private hospitals will be a new push to persuade patients to … Read more

A January HSJ article has confirmed what trade union representatives and Labour MPs have repeatedly argued: that the creation of ‘wholly owned’ sub companies by NHS Trusts (and FTs) was in almost every case, … Read more

Byline Times reports that a government health minister and two senior officials held a meeting with a Westminster lobbying group funded by private healthcare firms. As previously revealed by Byline Times, the … Read more

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust has launched legal action against Hadfield Healthcare Partnerships and Kajima Construction Europe after the closure of the Sir Robert Hadfield wing at the trust’s Northern … Read more

Almost identical reports in the (£) Times and Daily Mail that Sajid Javid “is planning to set up academy style hospitals,”  potentially run by the private sector (coyly described as “outside sponsors”), are clearly much more … Read more

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