…Trusts’ financial situation has got worse recently, with grim warnings of the increased demand on NHS beds and intensive care units from the second wave of Covid patients combining with…
Martin Shelley comments – It’s hard not to see the 24/7 transmission of disinformation swirling around the covid-19 pandemic – promoting the unhinged worldviews of lockdown sceptics, anti-vaxxers and covid…
…Consultation document states clearly that: “This consultation does NOT include community hospitals, GP practices, mental health and other services provided in the community or in people’s homes.” Separating the hospital…
…but explicitly retains the split between purchaser (commissioner) and provider. We have become so accustomed to the existence of NHS Trusts, and the separation of commissioners from providers within the…
…& Research; Health & Community. It promotes the Framework as: “A fully OJEU compliant route to market for the provision of multidisciplinary consultancy services; covering a wide range of specialisms….
…works, fire alarm upgrades, roof repairs, emergency lighting systems, estates asset management systems, medical gases, windows, fire doors and fire compartmentalisation works.” Just as well the money was made available….
…employees. In the same month a leaked copy of the government’s White Paper included plans to scrap the much criticised competition rules, which allow commercial companies to bid for a…
…demanded by campaigners and Leicester City Council’s Scrutiny Committee, and the need to retain the Unit, currently provided in Melton Mowbray, was raised by the largest number of public comments…
…began to be established, with up to 300 eventually agreed. As PCTs developed they replaced DHAs as hybrid bodies, commissioning local services, while also providing community health services. New Labour’s…