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
NHS Imporovement appear more willing to accept the difficulties the service is currently facing regarding privatisation and lack of funding. The official reported deficit for 2018-19 was £571m – a … Read more
NHS commissioners have given a contract worth approximately £80m to a transport company that councillors have previously branded as “diabolical”. Since June 1, E-Zec have been running non-emergency transport services … Read more
On a busy road in Fulham, West London, between the Pizza Go-Go and the A-Z Wine Mart, stands England’s fastest-growing GP surgery. In April 2017, the Lillie Road Medical Centre … 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
Privatising the NHS is wrong. It’s wrong because it wastes billions of pounds of taxpayers’ hard-earned money, it’s wrong because it has been proven to be less efficient, and it’s … Read more
Donald Trump has recently stated that the NHS could become involved in the discussions about the US-UK post-Brexit trade agreement. Last year John Appleby, chief economist of the Nuffield Trust … 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
After months of complaints and technical problems in clinics, the IMH Group will withdraw from primary care in Swindon. The Swindon Clinical Commissioning Group confirmed that Integral Medical Holdings will … Read more
Oxfordshire councillors have accused NHS bosses of endangering patients, “flagrant” lawbreaking and intimidating a leading hospital trust over their controversial privatisation of cancer scanning services. The councillors have written a … Read more
Four pharmaceutical firms have been accused of illegally colluding to restrict the supply of an anti-nausea tablet, driving the price paid for it by the NHS up by 700%. An … Read more
Two G4S ambulance crew members have been suspended after it was found that they had left a voicemail message for a vulnerable patient in which they suggested they could “beat … Read more
Concordia Specialist Care Services has terminated a contract to provide dermatology services two months early and at very short notice. The work was picked up by an NHS provider after … Read more
An investigation has found that, the Institute of Economic Affairs, a secretive think tank, which has called for the NHS to be scrapped while its heads pour millions into the … Read more
Trisha Costello was fined £160 fine after her daughter had gone for a check-up at the dentist. The fine was overturned, but it was one of 1.7 million fines over … Read more
NHS Hammersmith and Fulham, the CCG hosting the digital service GP at Hand, has revealed plans to cut urgent care centre hours due to its ‘very challenging financial position’. Pulse … Read more
Nigel Farage has said private health companies should “relieve the burden” on the NHS, the UK ought to limit efforts to curb global warming, and defended anti-immigrant posters, as the … Read more
Virgin Care has pulled out of a controversial contract with a financially-challenged clinical commissioning group in the West Midlands, HSJ has learned. In a letter sent yesterday, the private provider … Read more
