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NHS activity boosts flagging demand for self-pay treatment
The economic slowdown has begun to impact on private patient revenues for UK independent hospitals fuelled by low growth in medical insurance claims and a real fall in self-pay revenues.
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Underperforming ISTCs unlikely to have contracts renewed
Wave One of the independent sector treatment centre (ISTC) programme is expected to be curtailed when contracts come up for renewal as some schemes continue to operate well below the contracted volumes.
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Is healthcare a safe haven as financial crisis deepens?
The British Medical Association’s (BMA) GP Committee is a dangerous beast – according to the government. Hell-bent on blocking any attempts at modernisation of primary care services, its objections to the government’s primary care reforms have been described as protectionist, born out of greed and a fear of competition – a Trotskyite trade union led by a man who himself has been likened by the chair of the Health Select Committee to Arthur Scargill.
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Hinchingbrooke Hospital – battle lines are drawn
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has acquired Nuffield Health’s Hull hospital in a move which it said would enable it to increase capacity and meet access targets.
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Patient choice figures remain low
The Department of Health (DH) has published yet another set of disappointing results from its National Patient Choice Survey.
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NHS monopolies should be investigated
Primary care trusts (PCTs) and district hospitals constrain competition and severely restrict patient choice, a leading academic warned last month.
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Hospital closures hit revenues at Capio Nightingale
The closure of two of its hospitals more than halved turnover at Capio Nightingale, the mental health provider which trades as Florence Nightingale Hospitals Ltd, last year.
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Cost reductions put Benenden back into surplus
The Benenden Hospital Trust has moved back into surplus following a difficult year in 2006 when spiralling expenses led to a deficit of £1.2m.
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Sales leap at Vanguard
Vanguard Healthcare Solutions Ltd, the mobile operating theatre company owned by Nuffield, has reported a 47% leap in sales for the year ended 31 December 2007 to £8.4m.
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