04.07.11
Health
The National Audit Office to hold talks with MPs after Bureau investigation.
03.07.11
A taxpayer-funded scheme is allowing GPs to pocket huge windfalls.
Department of Health has paid out £2.5bn over five years to GPs to ‘rent’ their surgeries.
23.06.11
Patients looking for convenient appointments are over-loading walk-in centres.
The Bureau has found that many walk-in centres are to be closed or their services reduced.
17.06.11
Private health provider’s ambitions revealed as stock market float raises £45m.
15.06.11
One in seven board members of new NHS commissioning bodies have links to a private company.
10.06.11
As NHS waiting times increase the MOD demands guarantees its staff receive fast-track treatment.
09.06.11
Interactive map of the NHS’s proposed consortia, and board members links to Assura Medical.
08.06.11
The Bureau and Al Jazeera English investigate fraud, fatal side effects, and huge kick-backs paid to doctors in the US healthcare industry.
07.06.11
An investigation by the Bureau revealed growing questions over private health firm Circle Health.
05.06.11
Private health provider Circle Health is set to float despite losing lucrative NHS contracts.
25.05.11
Four out of six walk-in health centres created in a £50m Labour government scheme, closed.
A Labour government scheme to use the private sector in the NHS cost the taxpayer £500m.
The government is obliged to buy-back ISTC centres at a huge cost to UK taxpayers.
The DoH paid £60m compensation to private companies when contracts terminated.
Money wasted paying for operations that did not happen: the “take or pay” element.
Walk-in centres created designed to give busy workers better access to healthcare have been closed.
08.05.11
Two surgeons criticised over deaths at Britain’s worst hospital are still carrying out operations.
06.05.11
Examining the impact of the proposed overhaul of the NHS.
