Nurses at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust are having to clean wards after cleaners from a private company in order to maintain standards, the trust board has said. At a meeting … Read more
There was a “gap” in commissioners’ assurance process for an urgent care contract with Care UK and the provider’s staffing model was flawed, a review has found. The report by Verita, published … Read more
A hospital trust which is £135million in debt has sparked fury by handing a whopping £600million contract to Serco. Debt-ridden Barts Health NHS Trust is already in Financial Special Measures … Read more
Family doctors have criticised the “shambles” that has ensued after the firm Capita was handed a £700m contract to provide important backup services to GP surgeries across England. GP practices … Read more
A major hospital in Coventry will need to undergo remedial work after it emerged that it was built without the guaranteed fire safeguards. University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust … Read more
Virgin Care has been named preferred provider to provide adult community services in the South of England as part of an alliance contract, ahead of a bid from local trusts … Read more
The seven year contract – with an option to extend for a further three years – is being jointly commissioned by Bath and North East Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group and … Read more
GPs told to refer patients to private sector in bid to cut local trust’s waiting times (Pulse: 19 August 2016) GPs in Hertfordshire have been told to refer patients to private … Read more
The myriad different bodies that make up the NHS in England and their opaqueness, especially in terms of contracts to provide services, makes mapping the true extent of the privatisation … Read more
Sixteen West Midlands clinical commissioning groups are set to mobilise a new integrated NHS 111, GP out of hours and urgent care service across a population of 4.6 million after … Read more
It was a heartbreaking moment. Tearful jury members embraced a bereaved mother after hearing how her 14-year- old daughter had died neglected at the Priory Ticehurst House hospital in East Sussex, one … Read more
London CCGs award urgent primary care contract Six south west London clinical commissioning groups have awarded an integrated urgent care contract – combining NHS 111 and out of hours services … Read more
NHS spending on private ambulances for 999 calls in England has trebled in four years, BBC research has found. Ambulance trusts paid private companies and voluntary organisations £68.7m to attend … Read more
An out of hours provider has been forced to end provision of services across the East Midlands after it announced it intends to file for administration. Central Nottinghamshire Clinical Services … Read more
Vital primary care support services are in “meltdown” after NHS England contracted them out to Capita last year, prompting anger among providers toward the contractor and the national body. The … Read more
The GPC has told NHS managers that every practice should be compensated for the significant extra workload they have had to take on as a result of the ‘systematic failure’ … Read more
NHS 111 and GP out of hours services in east Kent are to be run by one organisation – but there are already fears about the transition to the new … Read more
A 16,000 patient practice has been left on a short-term interim contract after six of the seven APMS providers invited by NHS England to tender for the contract pulled out … Read more
The BMA report, Privatisation and independent sector provision of NHS healthcare, calls for research into how the growing role of private providers in the NHS is affecting patients and doctors. Private … Read more
Hundreds of patients including people with cancer and kidney failure have missed important appointments for treatment because ambulances did not arrive to take them to hospital, after privatisation of NHS … Read more
