Private firms on course to net £9bn of NHS contracts

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Private health firms are on course to win more than £9bn of NHS contracts to look after patients as a result of the coalition’s ramping up of competition in the health service, research shows.

Analysis by the NHS Support Federation, an independent campaign group, reveals that profit-driven companies such as Bupa, Virgin Care and Care UK have so far won a total of 131 contracts worth a combined £2.6bn to provide NHS services since the Health and Social Care Act came into force in April 2013.

They have won two out of three of the 195 contracts awarded by NHS bodies in England in the 19 months since that legislation dramatically extended the enforced tendering of services in the NHS. Those 131 contracts represent about half the value of the 195 deals that have been agreed.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/...ts-circle-healthcare-bupa-virgin-care-care-uk

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An interesting stat came out during yesterdays PMQ's that 5% of NHS contracts were put out for private tender when the coalition took office and that is now still only 6%.

Hardly a ramping up if true but it shows where and when it all started too.
 
ypauly said:
An interesting stat came out during yesterdays PMQ's that 5% of NHS contracts were put out for private tender when the coalition took office and that is now still only 6%.

Hardly a ramping up if true but it shows where and when it all started too.
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What is that 5/6% of though? Value? Were there a comparable number of contracts? Too much playing about with statistics by all sides these days. The worrying fact now is that things HAVE to be put out to tender, which then wastes lots of money in the tendering process. Also, some of these contracts might save money in themselves, on the surface, but if it leads to fragmentation of care, and with unproven contractors, then it is not good for the nation's health. Healthcare should be not-for-profit - it's obvious that only the profitable areas will be tendered for :(
 
Yup.

Like the Post Office. Like British Airways. Like British Rail.

Like Electricity, Gas and Water.

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