In the past few days I have learned that legal advice I provided to 38 degrees (and which they published) about the effect of the Regulations which impose Compulsory Competitive Tendering on the NHS ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

All three political parties are now under pressure to confirm whether or not they will back a significant increase to the health service's £110bn annual budget (Getty) From reproductive rights to ...

Vifor Pharma has pledged to pay £23 million to the NHS after Britain’s competition watchdog raised concerns the drugs firm had been making misleading claims about the safety of a rival’s iron ...

David Nicholson, the retiring Chief Executive of NHS England, has warned against what he called “carpet bombing” the NHS with competition. For him, and others, less focus on competition is a good ...

NHS bosses have welcomed extra competition and choice because it will make staff “up their game” for the benefit of patients. Simon Trickett, director of strategy and business development at ...

Our NHS has been through huge change since the vision was first set out in the post-war years. Successive Labour and Conservative governments have introduced key changes to the system, which have seen ...