Since the introduction of the PFI, if part of the NHS needs capital investment a contract is drawn up between the Trust and a consortium of bankers, builders and service … Read more
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Staff walked out this morning as part of the first 48-hour strike they have taken on this issue. Rachael Maskell, MP for York Central, was meeting workers on the picket … 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
An NHS pathology contract worth more than £2bn has been put on the market with the aim of linking eight trusts’ laboratory services. Bidders will compete to provide the full … Read more
Full story on Open Democracy, 19 September 2018 NHS trusts in England are setting up wholly owned subsidiaries (WOSs) in a bid to avoid tax. And the dangers inherent in … Read more
Full story in The Guardian, 10 September 2018 Ministers have been accused of “selling off the NHS family silver” after figures revealed that the amount of health service land being earmarked for … Read more
Full story in HSJ, 17 September 2018 A community services contract, worth £1.7bn, is set to be procured by commissioners in the South West of England Bristol, North Somerset and … 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
The Court of Appeal has granted the campaign group, 999 Call for the NHS, permission to appeal a judicial review ruling it lost against NHS England in May. The campaign … 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
Scrutiny and regulation of the NHS’s use of wholly owned subsidiary companies will be strengthened to ensure trusts do not set up such bodies “solely” for tax avoidance purposes. HSJ can … Read more
A large NHS body has spent millions of pounds on management consultants for a plan designed to save money – but which could cost more than £1bn to put into practice. Over … Read more
A hospital trust in the north west has dropped plans to transfer hundreds of non-clinical staff into a subsidiary company, after a financial deal was struck with the local authority. … Read more
A trust hopes to restart construction work on its new hospital in October after the government terminated the private finance contract which funded the project. Sandwell and West Birmingham Trust … Read more
A decision by Lancashire county council to award a £104m contract for children’s healthcare services to Virgin Care has been thrown out after a legal challenge by NHS trusts. A high court … Read more
Full Article: European Service Strategy, 8 May 2018 The article proposes that service contracts are renegotiated so that the public authorities contract directly with the providers, not via the SPV. … Read more
Up to 450,000 women aged 68-71 were denied mammograms as a result of an IT error that wasn’t highlighted for nearly 10 years. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt revealed that up … Read more
NHS trusts are spending millions of pounds outsourcing staff to new private companies, research suggests. A Freedom of Information (FOI) request by Unison has revealed that NHS trusts in England … Read more
Circle Health has pulled out of a bid to continue running services at the Nottingham Treatment Centre, and threatened clinical commissioning groups with legal action over their £150m three year procurement. … Read more
Since being outsourced by Capita in September 2015, Primary Care Support England (PCSE) has had increasing problems. To target improvements within the service, NHS England had a management watch team. … Read more
