Urgent care covers the NHS 111 services, walk-in centres and out-of-hours (OOH) GP services. There have been a number of failures with contracts awarded to private providers. Most recently, the … Read more
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The collapse of multiple contracts held by Allied Healthcare and its subsidiaries has led to four clinical commissioning groups appointing new organisations to run GP out of hours services. In … Read more
Thousands of patients could be left without GP out of hours services after a cash-strapped private provider said it would cease operations by the end of the month. Primecare, a … Read more
A company operating one of the first integrated NHS 111 and GP out of hours services is to hand back the contract to the NHS. Primecare was placed in special … Read more
For the first time Gloucestershire’s out of hours services for patients is set to be taken over by a private healthcare company. Care UK will take over provision of the … Read more
Patients could face paying their family doctors for out-of-hours appointments and minor procedures that fall outside the surgery’s contracted NHS work, under new plans being proposed by some GP leaders. … 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
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
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
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
NHS England has paid £165,000 for a contract that has seen a private provider carry out just one out-of-area GP patient home visit and 18 phone consultations since last July. … Read more
A leaked report has said that callers to out-of-hours GP services run by Integrated Care 24 (IC24) faced waits of more than 12 hours and this posed a “significant risk … Read more
Private NHS contractor ‘boots out patients before finishing treatment to meet targets’ (Mirror: 21 July 2015) Private providers of out-of-hours GP services deliver poorer care than NHS, research finds (The Independent: 30 … Read more
