Archive: Private Healthcare

Out-of-hours monitoring vital, watchdog warns

NHS Trusts must raise their monitoring game for out-of-hours services

Monitoring of out-of-hours services must be improved across the NHS, a review of the death of a 70-year-old man has found.

Private clinics on NHS 'not offering value for money'

NHS patients get wider choice of hospitals

DoH 'axes' private sector clinics

Privatisation is a 'Trojan Horse' say unions

Unite assistant secretary general Gail Cartmail said privatisation of the NHS was completely unacceptable.

The government's privatisation of the NHS is a 'Trojan Horse' that could cause untold damage to public services, said a major trade union today.

Cancer patients paid to go private

Cancer patients to be paid to go private

Gordon Brown is expected to announce a significant expansion of private sector involvement in the healthcare service today.

Govt to launch health screening for all over-40s

Alan Johnson to set out new screening programme

The government has announced a new national programme to screen all people aged between 40 and 74 for major illnesses.

NHS dentist boost to areas with greatest need

Govt targets 40 dentists at neediest areas

Trainee dentists will be allocated to areas with the greatest patient demand, the government announced today.

Govt to address carer concerns

Carers are "hidden heroes", Alan Johnson says

Gordon Brown says he will listen to carers' concerns in this year's forthcoming government strategy review.

EU healthcare proposals delayed

Court rulings say treatment should be available abroad within the EU

Plans to allow EU citizens to travel abroad for operations have been delayed.

DoH 'axes' private sector clinics

Johnson says schemes must offer value for money

The health secretary has denied the Department of Health (DoH) has axed controversial plans to involve private sector treatment centres in the NHS.

Dentists are returning to NHS, govt claims

The government claims dental services are improving, with more patients able to access an NHS dentist.

Lansley promises to protect the NHS

The shadow health secretary, Andrew Lansley, refused to talk about Tories policy on privatisation in the NHS

Conservatives "must deliver for the NHS", the shadow health secretary has insisted, amid a row about the party's plans for privatising the service.

Labour rebels over NHS reforms

Health secretary Patricia Hewitt's reforms have been controversial with some Labour delegates

Labour activists today defied the party leadership to back a highly critical motion condemning NHS reforms and the sell-off of NHS Logistics.

Hewitt: NHS changes will safeguard its values

Health secretary Patricia Hewitt defended NHS reforms

Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has hit back at critics of the government's reform of the NHS, insisting they were vital to ensuring the service's core values were preserved.

Private clinics on NHS 'not offering value for money'

MPs warns independent treatment centres are not offering NHS value for money

There is no evidence to suggest that private clinics given NHS contracts to deal with routine elective surgery are providing value for money, MPs have warned.