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The NHS e-Referral Service (ERS) is an electronic referral system developed for the Health and Social Care Information Centre by IT consultancy BJSS. It is used by NHS England and it replaced the Choose and Book service on 15 June 2015. [ 1 ]
Any Qualified Provider (AQP) is a contractual system within the NHS internal market of the English National Health Service. The system was introduced under the Labour administration in 2009/10 under the name "Any Willing Provider" and was accelerated under the coalition Government which formed in 2010. In 2011 the name of the system was changed ...
NHS Employers is an organisation which acts on behalf of NHS trusts in the National Health Service in England and Wales. It was formed in 2004, is part of the NHS Confederation , and negotiates contracts with healthcare staff on behalf of the government.
NHS Professionals supplies clinical and non-clinical temporary staff to the NHS and provides workforce services to health and care organisations. It operates a membership base of healthcare professionals (known as 'Bank Members') who work flexible shifts and longer-term placements at more than 130 acute and community NHS Trusts and other health and care organisations across the UK and the ...
The University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust provides adult district general hospital services for Birmingham as well as specialist treatments for the West Midlands. The trust operates the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Edgbaston (QEHB), adjacent to its older namesake and connected to it by a footbridge.
In June 2019 it provided 5,664 inpatient and 6,997 outpatient NHS-funded procedures. It announced in 2019 that NHS referrals had increased by 7.4% and it had benefited from an increase in NHS tariff prices. [13] Independent providers are represented by the Independent Healthcare Providers Network, which stresses the importance of patient choice ...
Prior to 1972 there was a Lister Hospital in Hitchin. [1] Like the present hospital, it was named in honour of Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, a British surgeon known as the pioneer of aseptic surgery, [2] The new hospital was opened by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in 1972. [3]
In 2009 NHS Lanarkshire developed seven possible combinations of keeping three A+E departments open; these were subsequently delivered for public scrutiny. [ 13 ] In November 2017, NHS Lanarkshire renamed all three of its acute hospitals - Hairmyres, Monklands and Wishaw General - with the prefix 'University Hospital' to reflect their new ...