Growing numbers of hospital trusts are transferring staff into newly created private subsidiary firms in a move health unions warn will create a “two-tier workforce” in the NHS. Trusts are … Read more
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Almost 700 non-clinical staff working at NHS hospitals in Gloucestershire will be moved to a new subsidiary company. The final decision on the proposals was taken in a behind-closed-doors meeting … Read more
The board of the Gloucestershire NHS trust which runs the county’s biggest hospitals has approved controversial proposals to set up a subsidiary company (SubCo) to employ almost 700 of its … Read more
Dozens of NHS hospital trusts across England are looking at (or already have) set up private companies in which to transfer swathes of vital NHS staff and assets. The moves … Read more
Moving 350 NHS staff into a Trust-owned private company has put Yeovil hospital in breach of licence, public service union UNISON has set out. In a letter to NHS regulators, UNISON … Read more
Just 11% of GP partners have not had any problems with the primary care support service run by Capita over the last 12 months, according to the GPonline poll. The results … Read more
Contingency plans are in operation across 14 NHS trusts after the collapse of construction and facilities management company Carillion. Staff from NHS Improvement were deployed on Monday at six of … Read more
London hospital trusts have been forced to bring patient transport services in house or re-tender them as incumbent firms exit the market. Barts Health Trust in east London has confirmed … Read more
A legal dispute between Virgin Care and six Surrey clinical commissioning groups has been resolved – with an apparent payment by the NHS to the company. The litigation – over … Read more
Labour is demanding an inquiry into how trainee GPs did not receive their salaries from a private firm that is meant to pay them on behalf of the NHS. Jonathan Ashworth, … Read more
Virgin Care has demanded more money for a controversial prime provider contract it signed with commissioners in Staffordshire last year, HSJ has learned. East Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Group has said it is … Read more
Ministers have been accused of “wasting millions of pounds” after abandoning the controversial sale of an NHS staffing agency. Public services union Unison protested that exploring the aborted privatisation of NHS Professionals had involved … Read more
The NHS is “leaking” money to private companies in contracts to build and run hospitals, a report says. Under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), companies provide money for new hospitals … Read more
Labour is demanding an inquiry into the privatisation of a government-owned NHS recruitment firm that saves hospitals £70m a year. NHS Professionals helps the health service in England tackle its … Read more
GPs are seeking to claim a quarter of a million pounds in unpaid bills from NHS England, its support services provider Capita and other NHS organisations, after a GP pressure … Read more
The Department of Health has spent nearly £2m on the stalled sale of a majority stake NHS Professionals, the health service’s in-house temporary staffing agency. The DH has spent £1.9m … Read more
Privatisation has long been held up as a panacea to the NHS’s problems. The first ‘PFI’ (Private Finance Initiative) schemes in the 90s were hailed as a possible solution to … Read more
Commissioners in north London have awarded an extended primary care services contract to a private provider over the GP federation that was already providing the service, HSJ has learned. Camden Clinical Commissioning … Read more
A Midlands clinical commissioning group is locked in a contract dispute with Virgin Care over a controversial “prime provider” contract awarded last year, HSJ has learned. East Staffordshire CCG disagrees with “contractual … Read more
The tender process in Staffordshire for a controversial contract for cancer services worth £687m has been abandoned; the consortium led by Interserve, failed to convince commissioners its offer was financially … Read more
