Maryfield Court, a private mental health hospital, has been rated “inadequate” and put into special measures by the Care Quality Commission. The hospital in Manchester is used for NHS patients … Read more
Hundreds of people have signed the petition against the sale of the Brighton General Hospital site – the plan is to protest outside Hove Town Hall and then hand in … Read more
Keep our NHS Public Oxfordshire (KONPOX) has written to the chair of Parliament’s Health Select Committee – Sarah Wollaston MP – requesting that Oxford University Hospitals Trust keep the contract … Read more
An investigation by HSJ has found that hospital trusts are continuing to allow patients to pay to have procedures which are banned or tightly restricted on the NHS. The news … Read more
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust will see more than 300 hospital staff going on strike this week in a dispute over what has been described as the “backdoor privatisation” of … Read more
As the summer hots up, hospital trusts are busy making plans for how they are going to cope with the coming winter. A regular feature of these plans is buying … Read more
Warrington South MP Faisal Rashid approved of the action of Warrington and Halton Hospitals Trust to stop charging ‘low clinical priority’ patients for operations. The service-My Choice-charged staggering amounts for … Read more
NHS England has estimated that over 50% NHS consultants do private work. These consultants get profit from surgery they perform in the private sector and this includes cancer treatment. There … Read more
It has been reported 371 NHS consultants have shares in private hospitals, where they can refer patients when waiting times are too high. There are concerns as to whether this … Read more
The surgery performed in private hospitals is largely NHS consultants during their non-NHS hours. There is huge competition between private and public hospitals for referrals. Private hospitals have been providing … Read more
It has been revealed that patients at United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust gave a rating of 73.4 out of 100 when they were asked about their overall experience as an … Read more
Patients are being charged for operations reaching as large as £8,500 at NHS Warrington and Halton Hospitals Trust. A social media user stated: “privatisation is already here”, since people are … Read more
Simon Stevens, the NHS England chief executive present when discussion and decision to not publish a 2015 report that brought to light concerns about children’s cancer care in London. Despite … Read more
In 2017 the Oxford University Clinic – including Oxford University and Oxford University Hospitals Foundation Trust working in partnership– collaborated with the Mayo Clinic, in putting forward the idea to … Read more
Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust is currently outsourcing over 100 cancer patients into private care provision for their chemotherapy treatment in an attempt to resolve increases in healthcare demands. This contract … Read more
Warrington and Halton Hospitals Trust are now offering 71 private healthcare treatments, including new hips priced at £18,143. Desperate patients, who would have otherwise received this treatment free of charge, … Read more
Circle has lost its 11-year contract with Nottingham NHS Treatment Centre. The private firm have been replaced with Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) to run the centre. NUH have … Read more
NHS are struggling to fulfil the needs of 4.23 million people in England waiting for a hip operation in March alone, with this figure on the increase. The number of … Read more
A coroner has issued warnings over safety at private hospitals after a patient referred out of the NHS by his consultant died following surgery. Businessman and father-of-two Simon Healey died from sepsis … Read more
Private hospitals should be encouraged to publish information on their safety, according to the leader of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, to prevent another scandal like the one … Read more
