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Providers are increasingly looking to challenge CCGs? tendering decisions on the basis they require integrated working, in a blow to the Government?s moves to promote greater integration, experts have warned.
Procurement experts and leading GPs have told Pulse that providers ? mainly smaller ones, and including a standard GMS practice ? are considering appeals against CCGs based on their tendering processes to either the healthcare watchdog or even the courts.
One procurement expert said she had collected a list of ?a dozen? providers who are building challenges, with the majority of these based on the requirements of some CCGs for providers to work with other organisations, which could be considered to be against UK and European competition laws, the expert said.
This is despite the Government?s claims that its competition regulations ? set out in Section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act, and based on European competition regulations ? will not affect moves towards integrated working.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/20005130.article#.Uo9Wa8TASSo
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Procurement experts and leading GPs have told Pulse that providers ? mainly smaller ones, and including a standard GMS practice ? are considering appeals against CCGs based on their tendering processes to either the healthcare watchdog or even the courts.
One procurement expert said she had collected a list of ?a dozen? providers who are building challenges, with the majority of these based on the requirements of some CCGs for providers to work with other organisations, which could be considered to be against UK and European competition laws, the expert said.
This is despite the Government?s claims that its competition regulations ? set out in Section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act, and based on European competition regulations ? will not affect moves towards integrated working.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/20005130.article#.Uo9Wa8TASSo
(free registration required)