Independent Sector Treatment Centres
Referral management standards and ethics, September 2007
This guidance has been produced to clarify where the responsibility for patients lies during the referral process, to advise clinicians on circumstances where they feel that they have not been sufficiently involved in the diagnosis and preparation of a patient, and to highlight the requirements for obtaining patient consent.Doctors have concerns about quality in ISTCs, BMA survey finds, July 2007
On the day the Healthcare Commission publishes its report on Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs), the BMA issues results from its own survey revealing senior doctors’ concerns about the ISTC programme.Referral management principles, March 2007
The Central Consultants and Specialists Committee and General Practitioners Committee have produced a joint document which aims to set out the key guiding principles of referral management schemes.Consultants Committee statement on CATS and ICATS, January 2007
PCTs in Cumbria and Lancashire have isssued a consultation seeking the public’s views on the establishment of a Clinical Assessment, Treatment and Support (CATS) service in Cumbria and Lancashire. The BMA are raising all these questions and concerns at national level and require your feedback.Independent sector provision and the NHS, February 2006
The BMA's written submission to Westminster's Health Select Committee for its inquiry into independent sector treatment centres. The document identifies a number of recommendations that the Government must address and the criteria that we would strongly wish to see used in evaluating bids for the second wave of the ISTC programme, or any independent sector provision of NHS care.Impact of treatment centres on the local health economy in England, December 2005
Little is known about the full impact of alternative providers of NHS care, in particular treatment centres, on their surroundings. This report gives the results of a BMA survey of clinical directors from those specialities most likely to be affected.Independent sector treatment centres - Structured secondment and ‘retention of employment’
BMA guidance on the transfer of clinical activity from NHS employers to independent sector treatment centres. Some medical staff are being asked to work in ISTCs under structured secondment arrangements and the guidance explains what this entails and sets out the BMA's position.Independent sector provision of NHS services
The document is the BMA's written submission (November 2005) to the Parliamentary Labour Party Health Committee for its review of the progress of the NHS under Labour and the mix of the private sector providers in the NHS and the roles, limits and regulation of markets in the NHS.