UK Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, has said the NHS needs to embrace value-based competition as part of the government’s reform plans Andrew Lansley, Health Secretary for the UK’s Department of ...

Local health bosses are saying they are legally obliged to put NHS services out to competition, despite repeated government promises to the contrary, it emerged today. A survey in today’s Pulse ...

Competition between the National Health Service (NHS) and private-sector providers in England has “played an important role in driving up quality and responsiveness of health care services and ...

Competition can help the integration of care in the NHS, and there is no evidence that it would hamper it, says a new report from the Office of Health Economics. Competition can help the integration ...

The lack of any mention of competition law in the forward view and subsequent action plan does not mean that it doesn’t apply to new models of care, but it should not be a barrier There is a striking ...

The NHS has been served up to “armies of lawyers and accountants” from the private healthcare industry, the leader of Britain's doctors has said, accusing the Government of a double-pronged attack on ...