We provide our members with a strong influencing voice in Government, parliament and the media, and ensure that they are kept up-to-date with the changing agenda.
Our members also benefit from:
- invitations to special events, meetings and receptions with key speakers and guests from within the healthcare sector
- direct involvement in policy development through high-level Department of Health groups and meetings with ministers
- access to the combined knowledge and expertise of the NHS Confederation and its other networks
- recognition by and engagement with all main political parties at senior level
- ability to network and share knowledge with other major NHS organisations, both independent and public sector
- good contacts with the media to facilitate presentation of the role of the independent sector within the NHS
- direct access to and dialogue with key health sector regulators
- regular meetings of the full membership, sub-groups and formal annual general meeting.
Our members
Membership to the network is open to independent sector providers who provide patient care services at primary, secondary or acute level, including diagnostic services.
NHSPN members must also be a prime contractor to an NHS commissioning body.
We currently have ten members within this developing network:
- Alliance Medical Ltd
- Care UK
- Circle Healthcare
- Clinicenta Ltd
- General Healthcare Group
- Nuffield Health
- Partnership Health Group
- Ramsay Health Care UK
- Spire Healthcare
- UK Specialist Hospitals Ltd
'The NHSPN is regarded as the key industry body representing independent sector providers to the NHS'
Richard Jones, Spire Healthcare, former NHS Partners Network Chair NHS Partners Network
'Membership of NHSPN has become more and more valuable to us as the need to engage fully and constructively with the rest of the NHS has increased'
Dr Grant Rex, Managing Director, Partnership Health Group
How to join
For further information about our members, what we do and how to join, please contact David Worskett, NHS Partners Network Director on 020 7074 3367 or at david.worskett@nhsconfed.org
