Private health firm loses NHS treatment centre contract

 The treatment centre contract has been awarded to Nottingham University Hospitals NHS trust. Photograph: Will Oliver/EPA A private health firm has lost one of the biggest and longest-running contracts to treat NHS patients, in a significant blow to the creeping privatisation of care. Circle is losing the contract it has held for 11 years to run the Nottingham NHS Treatment Centre, which provides 240,000 operations and checkups a year. Nottingham University Hospitals NHS trust (NUH) has been handed a £320m contract to run the centre for the next five years after a bitter legal…

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Raila loses Waiguru lifestyle disclosure bid

Nasa leader Raila Odinga has lost a bid to have Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru directed to provide information on her lifestyle. Mr Odinga wanted an application filed against him by Ms Waiguru, alleging he had defamed her, to be dismissed if she fails to provide information sought in the suit. READ: Raila seeks Waiguru-NYS tie detail High Court judge Joseph Sergon ruled that though Ms Waiguru declined to answer some questions asked by Mr Odinga’s lawyer relating to her lifestyle, she gave reasons for not answering. “I am satisfied that…

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One woman Loses Her existence each 5 minutes in the course of toddler start: WHO

each five mins, at least one Indian lady dies at some point of being pregnant and toddler beginning, the arena health organization (WHO) found out. in keeping with WHO, of the 529,000 maternal deaths taking place every year, 136,000 or 25.7 consistent with cent take place in India. “In fact, two-thirds of maternal deaths occur after transport, postpartum hemorrhage being the maximum typically reported hassle. The prevalence of emergency postpartum hysterectomies is set 83/one hundred,000 with a maternal mortality of 17.7 per cent and a perinatalmortality of 37.5 according to…

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