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Private health firm loses NHS treatment centre contract

June 10, 2019June 10, 2019 Loknath DasCentre, Firm, Health, Loses, NHS, Private, Treatment

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…

Vaginal mesh implants: Hundreds sue NHS over barbaric treatment

April 19, 2017 Loknath Dasbarbaric, Hundreds, implants:, mesh, NHS, Over, sue, Treatment, Vaginal

More than 800 UK women are taking legal action against the NHS and the makers of vaginal mesh implants, the Victoria Derbyshire programme has learned. The implants are used to treat pelvic organ prolapse and incontinence after childbirth, but some can cut into the vagina – causing severe discomfort. Some women have been left in permanent pain, unable to walk, work or have sex. One called the implants “barbaric”. The UK’s medicines regulator said it “sympathises” with the women affected. Kate Langley had to give up her business as a…