NHS Local Improvement Finance Trusts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook NHS Local Improvement Finance Trusts write by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts. This book was released on 2006-07-04. NHS Local Improvement Finance Trusts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Department of Health launched the Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) in 2000 to address long-standing under-investment in primary care facilities. It is a form of Public-Private Partnership with a national joint venture, Partnerships in Health, that oversees and invests in it. The total capital value of the first tranche of buildings was £711 million and the average cost of a building was £5 million. 90% of the capital is provided by debt and the properties are owned by the LIFTCo, with income being generated by rent payments from tenants such as GPs, Primary Care Trust, pharmacies and the local authority. This report examines whether the programme has been implemented effectively.
Changes to Primary Care Trusts
Changes to Primary Care Trusts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Changes to Primary Care Trusts write by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee. This book was released on 2006-01-11. Changes to Primary Care Trusts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NHS Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) were created in 2002 to commission health services for their local populations, and are currently responsible for controlling about 80 per cent of the £76 billion NHS annual budget. In addition, PCTs have responsibility for public health, and many also provide community-based health services such as district nursing and community hospitals. The Committee's report examines the Government's proposals (set out in the Department of Health paper 'Commissioning a Patient-led NHS' published in July 2005, which can be downloaded at http://www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/11/67/17/04116717.pdf) to cut the number of PCTs and to contract out community health services by the end of 2008. The report raises a number of serious concerns about the proposals, including in relation to: failings in the consultation process; the impact of PCT restructuring and divestment of provider services; and the likelihood that the estimated financial savings of £250 million will be achieved.
New Aspects of Quantity Surveying Practice
New Aspects of Quantity Surveying Practice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Aspects of Quantity Surveying Practice write by Duncan P. Cartlidge. This book was released on 2006. New Aspects of Quantity Surveying Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The construction industry and the quantity surveying profession have undergone rapid changes and this text explores the evolving market, examining the new construction culture, procurement strategies, e-practice and the QS, delivering added value, supply chain management and partnering.
The New NHS
The New NHS - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New NHS write by Alison Talbot-Smith. This book was released on 2006-09-27. The New NHS available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Do you understand the 'New NHS'? This new text is an indispensable guide to how health care is delivered in Britain today.
Betraying the NHS
Betraying the NHS - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Betraying the NHS write by Michael Mandelstam. This book was released on 2007. Betraying the NHS available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on his experiences of helping to fight cuts and closures in Suffolk, Michael Mandelstam delivers a damning verdict on the mismanagement of the NHS at national, regional and local level. He charts the widespread cutbacks and closures, both rural and urban, to clinics, A&E services, beds, wards and scores of community hospitals. He outlines how humane care, particularly for older people, is compromised by the ruthless determination of NHS management to increase patient throughput and hit government-set targets. The author highlights how the chaotic change to the NHS is being driven by concealed agendas - including privatisation of the NHS, obsessive interference from central government as well as selective use, if not abandonment, of evidence-based practice. Seriously flawed and damaging decisions are the result, affecting the population at large as well as those most vulnerable - older people with chronic and complex needs, people with physical or learning disabilities and people with mental health problems. Above all, he exposes the scandalous lack of transparency and accountability behind changes that threaten to destroy the NHS.
