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Private & Voluntary Health Service Providers

Our members within private and voluntary health service providers work in almost as wide a range of roles as our public sector members – from top executives and directors, through senior clinicians and service managers, to support service professionals in fields such as finance, HR and communications.

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Blurring those sectoral boundaries, some work for private companies contracted by NHS bodies – such as the facilities management staff working on hospital PFI contracts, and the corporate services teams outsourced to suppliers such as Capita. And whilst many private hospitals and medical centres operate largely within the private sector – receiving the bulk of their income from health insurance firms – the NHS also commissions large numbers of procedures from private and voluntary sector providers.

Finally, some of our members work in community interest companies and other social enterprises – often spun out of the NHS, with the goal of selling services back to the public sector as well as in the wider economy.

Members within all these organisations and roles are represented and protected by our network of national officers, each of whom serves members within a particular region or nation. Because the UK’s constituent nations take different approaches to managing healthcare, the profile of our members within private and voluntary bodies varies between them: you can find more details on our pages on England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. 

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So much effort, such poor outcomes

I spent 40 years building health services for elderly people living at home – then my mum fell ill, and those services let her down. In the post COVID-19 world, we must plug the gaps between primary, community and social care provision

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Telemedicine could bring huge benefits but, managed badly, we could end up combining the worst aspects of private healthcare and public-sector IT.

22 November 2018 | By Anonymous
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It’s time to rethink how we do outsourcing

The Carillion collapse shows the perils of driving suppliers to the brink...

18 April 2018 | By Anonymous
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One senior manager speaks about how MiP helped her after a frustrating and costly experience with her employer’s outsourced leased car scheme.

18 September 2017 | By MiP
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Hit by mergers and the loss of contracts, MiP is working to support members in CSUs and make sure their voice is heard at national level.

18 July 2017 | By Jane Carter
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What are the lessons for the NHS from the troubled history of shared services in the public sector?

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Public value: caring for our communities

Healthcare management should be about more than meeting targets and cutting costs. Managers need to deliver services that strengthen their communities.

03 March 2016 | By Alan Turrell
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MiP gives cautious welcome to NHS reforms
MiP welcomes the principles behind the NHS white paper but warns that it could be a dangerous distraction from fighting the pandemic.
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