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IntraHealth News

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• Stephanie Hogg and Elizabeth Carroll were leading the way at the best of health awards 17th June 2010.

  Stephanie was delighted to win the Nurse of the year award paying generous tribute to her colleagues in her acceptance speech.  Elizabeth who was short listed for the customer service award said, “It was a fantastic achievement for the Hartlepool team to be nominated for two awards.  As a relatively new provider to the residents of Hartlepool is a tremendous endorsement for our commitment to customer service excellence.

• SAILS Pioneering partnership is changing the lives of older people.

• Nurse Stephanie Hogg is nominated for Best of Health Awards

• Andrew Lansley visits Hartfields surgery in Hartlepool

• IntraHealth win National award from Medilink UK

• New practice opening in Rochdale

Health officials and journalists got a sneak preview of IntraHealths Small Bridge Practice opening 1st August . Click on the link to read more.15th July 2009 - Rochdale Observer

• IntraHealth to run two new city practices

Sunderland Teaching Primary Care Trust has announced that two new GP Practices in Riverview Health Centre in Hendon and Pennywell Health Centre will be run by Peterlee-based IntraHealth from April 1.

11th February 2009 - Sunderland Echo

• No registration for centre treatment.

A district with one of the worst health records in the country will benefit from a new NHS contract providing a walk-in health centre that does not require patients to register.

4th February 2009 - The Northern Echo

• Surgery will 'offer improved services'.

A pioneering doctor's surgery aimed at providing improved community health care has been officially launched.

12th June 2008 - Hartlepool Mail

• First Private Company GP Surgery Opens

One of the first in a new type of doctors' surgery, offering extended opening hours and run by a private company, has opened in the North-East.

12th June 2008 - The Nothern Echo (Barry Nelson)

   

   

• IntraHealth welcome their 100th patient to Lower Ince and Platt Bridge

• Two new GP Surgeries Open in Lower Ince and Platt Bridge

• New surgeries to open in Wigan

• Health Shake up in Leigh

• HSJ - FPC Tranche 1 - Sept 07

• Competition can prove effective medicine

• West Cornforth hosts Tony Blair visit
  West Cornforth recently hosted a visit from Prime Minister Tony Blair and Radio 4's 'Today' show. The show was broadcast live from the practice with the Prime Minister as a guest.
  TPP

• Tony Blair Interview with John Humphries
  Friday, 2nd February, saw IntraHealth West Cornforth surgery in the national spotlight as the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, chose the practice as the venue to give a rare interview with John Humphrys and the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.
  IntraHealth Press Release

• Chiltern Hills Listening to Patient Views
  On the eve of its official opening of its new surgery, the Chiltern Hills medical practice is holding a patients' forum to take the temperature of their patients' views.
  IntraHealth Press Release

• IntraHealth Pharmacy
  On 30th June 2006 IntraHealth became the proud owner of its first community pharmacy. The Company acquired West Cornforth Pharmacy IntraHealth (formerly Stevenson's pharmacy, West Cornforth) from Norchem Ltd. This marks a significant stage in our development breaking into a new area of provision within primary care with clear opportunities for greater service integration and the chance to develop a futuristic model of pharmaceutical care.
  June 30th 2006 - IntraHealth Pharmacy

• Primary and Community Services
  NAPC Review Summer 2006

• Are you a grasshopper or an ant?
  NAPC Review Summer 2006

• Hallgarth Surgery - Testimonial
  The main difference since the change in our contractural status and joining IntraHealth is the release from non-clinical management responsibility.
  March 2006 - Hallgarth Surgery

• Promise of better care at surgery
  A Darlington doctors' surgery which is under new management is promising better health care for patients. Healthcare provider IntraHealth has been awarded the contract for Parkgate Surgery in the new £3.25m Park Place health centre built by Darlington Primary Care Trust (PCT).
  April 2006 - The Northern Echo

• Test scheme runs in Blair's constituency
  The idea of the independent sector running a GP's surgery might be anathema to Labour's traditionalists, but in the Prime Minister's Sedgefield constituency a private company already works at the heart of the NHS.
  May 31st 2005 - The Times (Sam Lister)

• Don't let care be hijacked by dogma
  The news that private company IntraHealth has taken over the running of a GP practice in prime minister Tony Blair's Sedgefield constituency did not surprise many health professionals.
  February 2005 - Medi Economics

• Private firm takes over GP surgery in Blair's backyard
  A private company has taken over control of a GP practice in the Sedgefield constituency of Tony Blair in a new partnership between the NHS and the private sector which could become the model of the future.
  January 12th 2005 - The Guardian (Debbie Andalo)

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