The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned adverts for Babylon Health’s smartphone app that promise to let patients “see an NHS GP in minutes for free”. The private health firm … Read more
Private Providers
Our work and news stories on private providers.
A community provider’s contract has been extended by four months, pending a court dispute over an integrated care deal. Central Surrey Health, a social enterprise providing community services in the … Read more
Virgin Care has terminated large parts of a controversial prime provider contract in the West Midlands, HSJ can reveal Following an 18-month dispute with East Staffordshire CCG, Virgin Care has terminated … Read more
Britain’s largest private healthcare group, BMI Healthcare, said on Monday it had agreed a deal with its creditors and landlords that would include recapitalising the business. Hospital Topco, the parent … Read more
Virgin Care is likely to lose a children’s contract worth hundreds of millions of pounds as commissioners are set to name an NHS consortium as preferred bidders. Northern, Eastern and … Read more
BMI Healthcare, which operates 59 hospitals and clinics across the UK, is within days of announcing that it has reached agreement with its landlords and other creditors about a deal … Read more
A GP practice has been forced to cut back on staff after Capita reclaimed thousands of pounds without explanation or notice, it has claimed. The Court Street Medical Practice, based … Read more
Full story in The Independent, 21 September 2018 Almost one in three knee replacements and 20 per cent of hip replacements that are NHS funded are carried out by private healthcare … Read more
Clinical commissioning groups in Kent are being asked to find at least an extra £2m for a service which is leaving people waiting months for wheelchairs. Millbrook Healthcare has run … Read more
One of the largest GP partnerships in England has brought on Push Doctor to provide its patients with online consultations Modality Partnership, which serves around 400,000 patients, has announced it … Read more
Full story on Evolve Politics, 9 September 2018 The man who Theresa May has just appointed Chairman of the NHS, Tory Peer Lord Prior of Brampton – who will take … Read more
Full story in The Guardian, 31 August 2018 NHS bosses have urged hospitals to send patients to be treated by private healthcare firms in a bid to reduce the increasing … Read more
Pulse reports that GPs warn that private online providers are creating competition between NHS practices and this is threatening the loss of both patients and staff and could lead to … Read more
Full story in The Guardian, 5 August 2018 Virgin has been awarded almost £2bn worth of NHS contracts over the past five years as Richard Branson’s company has quietly become … Read more
Full Story: BBC, 25 July 2018 The report by the the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) says it meant thousands of GPs, dentists and opticians had been delayed in treating patients. … Read more
NHS England’s outsourcing of primary care support services was short-sighted, disruptive to thousands of medical professionals, and had the potential to put patients at “risk of serious harm,” MPs have … Read more
Matt Hancock has backed the expansion of GP consultations via smartphone, just days after local commissioners blocked an expansion of a major digital practice citing patient safety. The new health secretary … Read more
The Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, in his first speech since being appointed to the role, has said that the NHS should ‘harness’ new technology such as Babylon’s GP at Hand … Read more
A private mental health hospital which treats NHS funded patients including children has been judged inadequate for safety by CQC inspectors. The Priory Hospital North London was rated “requires improvement” overall by … Read more
Ashford and St Peter’s Foundation Trust threatened to serve notice on an operational agreement with BMI Healthcare under which the trust provides some services to the company’s Runnymede Hospital, which … Read more
