Ministers move to extend NHS choice
Press Review 17 March 2005
The government wants the private sector to build new centres to treat hundreds of thousands of NHS patients.
Reid unveils £1bn bid to cut waiting lists
News Article 19 February 2005
A £1 billion cash boost is the government’s latest bid to drive down NHS waiting lists.
Ministers urged to devolve more NHS work to private sector
Press Review 4 February 2005
The National Health Service should give more work to private healthcare providers.
Reid hails treatment centre success
News Article 7 January 2005
The health secretary has insisted that the new wave of NHS treatment centres is delivering rapid improvements in patient care.
Health plan hit by sceptical report
Press Review 30 November 2004
A report from the King's Fund says ministers should be cautious in putting NHS money into a US scheme to keep elderly people out of hospital.
NHS looks to private sector to cut waiting lists
Press Review 9 November 2004
The government is to set up a second wave of independent treatment centres, which are privately owned and run but treat NHS patients, in order to further cut waiting lists by 2008.
Reid to end two-tier NHS cleaning contracts 'within weeks'
News Article 29 September 2004
The health secretary has announced that NHS private and public sector cleaners will get the same terms and conditions "within weeks".
NHS to offer private surgery
Press Review 20 September 2004
Up to one million NHS patients are to be offered the choice of having their operations carried out privately by the end of next year.
NHS reforms 'are a disaster'
Press Review 3 August 2004
A book to be published next week by Professor Allyson Pollock warns that the government's NHS reforms will prove a "disaster".
Royal College of Physicians
Government Affairs Website
New contract to boost MRI scans
News Article 29 June 2004
John Hutton has announced a multi-million pound contract for a private company to provide additional MRI scans for the NHS.
PFI hospital buildings under fire
Press Review 22 June 2004
The private finance initiative has led to huge mistakes in the £6 billion hospital building programme in England, NHS chief executives told ministers yesterday.
Business Services Association: Welcome
Government Affairs Website Page
Doctors warn of privatisation threat to NHS
Press Review 10 June 2004
NHS consultants have accused the government of aiming to privatise the health service.
Forum of Private Business
Government Affairs Website
