…the NHS by compelling CCGs to put services out to competitive tender: the promise of a greater local say over services was only window dressing to make CCGs palatable. In…
The austerity-driven cutbacks in social care spending that have continued since the 2017 general election have taken a heavy death toll according to research by Age UK. They calculate that…
…waiting for one of the 15 key diagnostic tests at the end of September 2019 had been waiting six weeks or longer from referral, compared with the operational standard of…
…Community clinic According to the partnership’s website, referrals are assessed by clinicians, with the most likely next step an appointment at a local community clinic with one of several different…
…hospital trusts (Oxford University Hospitals, and mental and community health). These contracts are by their nature rather inflexible. And, since they are held by private companies, they are not easy…
…a change of contractor for the APMS contracts at eight practices in Camden, Islington and Haringey, by NCL CCG’s Primary Care Commissioning Committee at a virtual meeting; the public were…
…which measures outlined in the Budget do little to address. Analysing data compiled by NHS Benchmarking, news website HSJ found that the four-week waiting times ‘standard’ in mental health, proposed…
…because cash-squeezed NHS trusts and commissioners were painfully aware of what poor value for money the Covid contracts had been. Just months after the complete takeover of Circle by Operose,…
…to big pharma.” The latest government press release speaks of more than “65 years of working together” with the drug industry to “help manage the affordability of medicines for the…