Challenge to NHS rules on competition
FT, 21/12/09
The private and third sectors have combined to challenge the declared policy of Andy Burnham, the health secretary, that National Health Service organisations are now the ‘preferred provider’ of NS care. Read article.
NHS trust ‘improving too slowly’
BBC News, 17/12/09
Read article concerning Mid Staffs NHS Trust.
NHS faces pivotal year – David Nicholson
e-health Insider, 17/12/09
Need to make cuts? Start with the bloated NHS
Times Online, 17/12/09
PBC was a useful tool for resolving problems within the NHS and improving services but is not supported properly by PCT’s. There is far too much waste,inefficiency,red tape,auditting and “counting of paperclips” at PCT’s. There really needs to be a bonfire of administrators in order to free General Practice and let it thrive; PCT’s meddle in the [...] More >
