Protester seeks injunction to prevent a London PCT signing a contract with private provider

doi:10.1136/bmj.b4322

Published 20 October 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b4322
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b4322

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Protester seeks injunction to prevent a London PCT signing a contract with private provider

Clare Dyer

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The High Court is to be asked to prevent Camden primary caretrust (PCT) in north London from giving a private healthcarecompany a £20m ( ${euro}$ 22m; $33m) contract to run a new, generalpractitioner led health centre.

Camden resident and former Labour councillor Bob Austin is seekingcourt permission to mount a legal challenge over the decisionby the trust (NHS Camden) to commission the south Camden healthcentre. A consultation on primary care services in Camden closedon 16 October, but the document giving Mr Austin’s groundsfor judicial review says that this consultation specificallyexcluded the option of a GP led health centre and that the decisionto award the contract was, in any case, already taken beforethe consultation closed.

He also wants the court to stop the trust’s "threatenedimminent decision" to sign the contract with the private healthcareprovider Care UK. The trust’s website . . . [Full text of this article]

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