Medical Business Consultancy, Advice on patient referrals, business development and business strategy for clinics, hospitals and medical centres. International healthcare and health tourism. www.athenemedicalsolutions.co.uk A big expansion in the range and type of NHS services put out to tender looks likely, with private sector operators, the voluntary sector, foundation trusts and more entrepreneurial Gps set to benefit. http://www.athenemedicalsolutions.co.uk/content/article/18/more-nhs-services-set-to-go-out-for-tender.html http://www.athenemedicalsolutions.co.uk/content/article/18/more-nhs-services-set-to-go-out-for-tender.html Interim managers are filling an increasingly important structural role in the UK’s National Health Service. The profile of the jobs and of the people who do them is changing, and other complex organisations should take note http://www.athenemedicalsolutions.co.uk/content/article/17/more-nhs-services-set-to-go-out-for-tender.html http://www.athenemedicalsolutions.co.uk/content/article/17/more-nhs-services-set-to-go-out-for-tender.html NHS Trusts who are in the process of producing an Integrated Business Plan as part of their Foundation Trust application; or who have recently been awarded Foundation Trust status should consider more fully the range of commercial opportunities open to them as effectively representatives of “NHS plc”... http://www.athenemedicalsolutions.co.uk/content/article/16/more-nhs-services-set-to-go-out-for-tender.html http://www.athenemedicalsolutions.co.uk/content/article/16/more-nhs-services-set-to-go-out-for-tender.html The British nationals who complain about the high cost of healthcare and the lack of hygiene in their own hospitals seek treatment in abroad. On top of the list of the countries preferred by the British are France and Belgium... http://www.athenemedicalsolutions.co.uk/content/article/15/more-nhs-services-set-to-go-out-for-tender.html http://www.athenemedicalsolutions.co.uk/content/article/15/more-nhs-services-set-to-go-out-for-tender.html Turkey mustn’t miss this opportunity. I am referring to "Health Tourism". This sector has developed so rapidly in the last few years that I find it difficult to find the words to describe it... http://www.athenemedicalsolutions.co.uk/content/article/14/more-nhs-services-set-to-go-out-for-tender.html http://www.athenemedicalsolutions.co.uk/content/article/14/more-nhs-services-set-to-go-out-for-tender.html From Open University Alumni magazine, 'Open Eye'. Studying with the OU has opened doors for hundreds of Alumni to start their own businesses. Open Eye Magazine speaks to Andrew Clarke who was inspired to 'go it alone' in the world of business. http://www.athenemedicalsolutions.co.uk/content/article/12/more-nhs-services-set-to-go-out-for-tender.html http://www.athenemedicalsolutions.co.uk/content/article/12/more-nhs-services-set-to-go-out-for-tender.html Thinking with an International perspective can pay dividends for consultants who wish to boost their private practice income. Andrew Clarke finalises this series in Independent Practitioner magazine with more marketing tips. http://www.athenemedicalsolutions.co.uk/content/article/13/more-nhs-services-set-to-go-out-for-tender.html http://www.athenemedicalsolutions.co.uk/content/article/13/more-nhs-services-set-to-go-out-for-tender.html SO WHERE are you gaining private patients from? Are you, or the chambers you are a part of, aware of the postcode and locations of all your patients’ GPs? If you don’t know this, you will not know what discrete referral clusters of GPs exist or whether there are geographical areas that are referring to your rival consultants and centres... http://www.athenemedicalsolutions.co.uk/content/article/11/more-nhs-services-set-to-go-out-for-tender.html http://www.athenemedicalsolutions.co.uk/content/article/11/more-nhs-services-set-to-go-out-for-tender.html In these increasingly competitive times, consultants cannot hope to maximise their private practice’s growth potential unless they are aware of where their patients are being referred from and which additional referral sources may be open to them... http://www.athenemedicalsolutions.co.uk/content/article/10/more-nhs-services-set-to-go-out-for-tender.html http://www.athenemedicalsolutions.co.uk/content/article/10/more-nhs-services-set-to-go-out-for-tender.html