NHS England says it does not have information about the Care UK contracts for Todmorden and Halifax Walk In Health Centres. When I put in a Freedom of Information request to Calderdale CCG last July, they passed much of it … Continue reading
How did Care UK and Virgin Care end up with contracts to run GP services in Calderdale? And after Calderdale CCG completes its review of GP services and community unplanned care (ie urgent care that isn’t A&E), how many more … Continue reading
An example of the increasingly intimate merger of government and corporate interests, former New Labour Health Secretary Alan Milburn recently joined Price Waterhouse Coopers to head up a board overseeing the consultancy and accountancy giant’s private health care business, which is … Continue reading
Thanks to local campaigning, the two GP centres run by Care UK (one in Todmorden and one in Halifax) will remain open until September, when Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) aims to have completed its review of how to provide primary … Continue reading
Calderdale Council puts out a yearly social care Market Position Statement for companies that sell social care services, to tell them what customers for social care services are looking for. The 2014 Market Position Statement says that Calderdale social care … Continue reading
On 30 July (2pm, Leeds Civic Centre) a meeting in public of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Sustainability and Transformation Plan Joint Health Scrutiny Committee will question West Yorkshire and Harrogate Integrated Care System leaders about what they’re up to. … Continue reading
West Yorkshire and Harrogate Sustainability and Transformation Plan Joint Health Scrutiny Committee (phew, a mouthful) is meeting on Monday 30th July at 2pm in Leeds Civic Hall. It is to scrutinise the Integrated Care System that recently developed from the … Continue reading
A Wigan Council press release (below) says the Council has made the Wrightington Wigan & Leigh hospital trust a financial offer that has averted the Trust’s transfer of its support staff into a Wholly Owned Subsidiary. While it is great news … Continue reading
The 150th Annual Trades Council Conference has unanimously passed a composite NHS motion from Cheshire, Calderdale and Derby Trades Councils, that calls on the TUC to take action to oppose Accountable Care Systems (rebranded by NHS England as “Integrated Care … Continue reading
How can this Report be independent when you read the identity of two of the three special advisers, and find in footnote 10, the conflict of interest declaration for Chris Ham & Anna Charles (both employed by the Kings Fund)? … Continue reading