Get the data: NHS spent £60m on cancelled healthcare contracts
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The Bureau has uncovered that £60m compensation was given to private companies when plans for a second wave of Independent Sector Treatment Centres, ISTCs, were axed.
According to the Department of Health, wave two initially involved 24 schemes, but was scaled back to 10. The Department said that ‘the changing situation in health economies’ meant that extra capacity was no longer needed.
As the table below shows, six companies: Netcare, Care UK, Alliance, Atos Origin, and Clinicenta received a total of £59.8m compensation when the contracts were cancelled.
| Code | Name | Provider | Amount * | Note |
| E04 | Cumbria & Lancashire CATS | Netcare | 4.0 | |
| E07 | Essex | Care UK | 2.7 | |
| E11 | London North | Clinicenta | 13.4 | Contract ran but now terminated |
| E12 | London South | Clinicenta | 4.1 | |
| D03 | East of England | Amicus (JV InHealth Group and Netcare) | 3.0 | |
| D02 | North East of England | Alliance Medical / Care UK | 3.2 | |
| D04/D07 | South West, North West | Atos | 2.5 | Contract awarded but terminated on failure of conditions precedent |
| D05 | West Midlands | Care UK (Mercury) | 27.0 | Contract ran but now terminated |
| 59.8 | ||||
| * Published in DH Accounts EXCEPT £8m included in E11 for termination only just agreed in Dec 2010 / January 2011 | ||||
Source: Department of Health
