St Helens CCG spends £4.1m on out of area mental health placements in 2018
Full Story at St Helens Star, 12 April 2018 ST HELENS Clinical Commissioning Group spent more than £4 million on … Read more
NHS spending
GP federation is beaten to NHS contract by private provider.
Full story at HSJ 18 April 2018 Commissioners in north London have awarded an extended primary care services contract to … Read more
Unison says NHS trusts ‘fritter away’ millions of public money outsourcing staff to private companies
Full Story in The Independent 16 April 2018 NHS trusts are spending millions of pounds outsourcing staff to new private … Read more
‘Backdoor privatisation’ accusations for hospital trusts
Full Story in The Guardian 16 April 2018 Hospital trusts are spending millions of pounds setting up arm’s-length private companies, … Read more
Dispute with acute trust leaves CCG with £15m bill.
Full story at HSJ 13 April 2018 Commissioners have been left with a £15m bill after losing a dispute with … Read more
Tax rises to bolster NHS backed by majority of voters
Full Story in The Guardian 12 April 2018 Voters are ready by nearly two to one to pay more tax … Read more
Worcester’s Oxford Fertility IVF clinic must be paid for by NHS patients
Full Story in Worcester News 4 April 2018 LOCAL NHS patients currently have to pay to use an IVF clinic … Read more
Some women no longer have access to IVF in Bath and Somerset
Full story at Somerset Live 3 April 2018 Health chiefs say limiting access to fertility treatments in Bath and North … Read more
Plans have been scrapped to deny women IVF on the NHS in Trafford
Full Story in Manchester Evening News 27 March 2018 A plan to deny women IVF on the NHS in Trafford … Read more
NHS in Leicestershire accused of ‘back door privatisation’
Full Story in Harborough Mail 26 March 2018 Campaigners have accused University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) of “back … Read more