Failing NHS hospitals may be put under private sector management in a last-ditch attempt to improve services to patients, the government will disclose today. Ben Bradshaw, the health minister, will unveil a regime for NHS trusts that persistently provide substandard care or cannot balance the books. It will give David Nicholson, the NHS chief executive, powers to sack the entire board of hospitals unable to meet tight deadlines for improvement and replace them with a new management team.
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Ailing hospitals to be taken over by private companies - The Independent 4th June 2008
Private healthcare managers could be sent to turn round failing NHS hospitals - The Times 4th June 2008
Private companies to take over failing hospitals - The Telegraph 4th June 2008
Firms 'to run failing NHS trusts' - BBC Health News 4th June 2008
Failing hospitals to get private sector bosses - The Guardian 4th June 2008
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
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