This report identifies where each pound that goes into the care home industry ends up by using a forensic study of the accounts of over 830 adult care home companies. If finds significant levels of leakage of money from front-line care, including to profit, rental bills and debt repayments.
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As the political crisis tips over into a full blown constitutional crisis, the NHS in England remains highly susceptible to the ditching of constitutional conventions.
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Today the Centre for Health and the Public Interest publishes its evidence to the Inquiry into the actions of the convicted Breast Surgeon Ian Paterson.
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This report looks into how the private hospital sector uses financial incentives to attract NHS consultants to work for them.
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This briefing summarises the key forces determining the price and availability of new medicines in the NHS.
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CHPI’s new Director offers a cutting critique of Simon Stevens’ new NHS Long Term Plan
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The first of three essays in honour of Welsh GP Julian Tudor Hart – whose research and practice have lots to teach us about contemporary primary care challenges
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We reflect on the controversy surrounding the case of Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba, and the serious difficulties faced in finding the correct response when things go wrong in healthcare
Read MoreThe CHPI welcomes today’s letter from the Secretary of State to the private hospital sector which aims at reducing patient safety risks across the sector.
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Taken together, the collapse of Carillion and the National Audit Office’s report on the legacy of PFI and PF2 should be the final nails in the coffin of the use of private finance to fund public infrastructure projects. But what can we do about existing contracts?
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Based on evidence from an extensive review of CQC inspection reports of 177 private hospitals in England, this report identifies serious risks to patient safety in the current private hospital business model.
Read MoreA 3-minute video summary of how PFI affects the NHS, based on the findings of our latest report.
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This report looks at the significant profits made by PFI companies from NHS contracts over the last 6 years.
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The June 2017 Conservative manifesto contained a statement which looks like marking the end of a long-running and highly charged debate about how healthcare should be delivered. So do we at CHPI feel vindicated?
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In the context of Brexit, attention must be paid to what a cap on migration means for recruiting and retaining the NHS workforce.
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This analysis identifies five key questions to be asked of each of England’s 44 Sustainability and Transformation Plans.
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Social care requires a significant injection of public funds to move from being a residual public service to one which enhances the lives of older people. Until then, the crisis will continue to worsen.
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CHPI Research Officer Vivek Kotecha is interviewed about the charging of overseas patients for NHS care on BBC News 24.
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