virgin care
virgin care' s financial set - up is very complicated and active companies include virgin care services ltd, virgin care ltd, virgin care provider services, virgin care corporate services ltd and several limited liability partnerships (llps) .
virgin care said it was
pleased to be chosen to deliver more joined - up care
.
for example, the contract in devon is with virgin care ltd, whereas the contracts in wiltshire, kent, surrey and staffordshire are with virgin care services ltd and the contracts in croydon and hastings area are with virgin care provider services ltd. the primary care contracts are with a number of different llps, including virgin care coventry llp, virgin care leeds llp and virgin care liverpool llp. in the year to end march 2017 there were at least 13 active llps .
virgin healthcare holdings and virgin uk holdings ltd are subsidiaries of virgin group holdings ltd, which is registered in the british virgin islands and owned by richard branson .
over the past few years virgin care has been successful in acquiring numerous medium to large contracts for community care .
since virgin care started on their journey, they have been focused on delivering high quality care, good value and the fantastic customer service you’d expect from virgin .
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preparations will now begin for services to be transferred to virgin care on april1st 2017 .
preparations will now begin for services to be transferred to virgin care on 1 april 2017 .
private healthcare provider virgin care has been awarded a £700m contract to run a council’s community care and health services despite protests from residents .
care australia and virgin australia today announced a partnership to support care’s work with thousands of poor communities in the asia - pacific region .
“virgin care could demonstrate through documentary evidence that following acquisition of services, they had managed to bring about a sustained, significant improvement to patient care. ” cqc report on virgin care services limited nhs community services in august 2017 .
the contract – the first time a for - profit organisation will deliver a council’s social care programme for adults – will see virgin care run or oversee more than 200 nhs health care and social care services in the area .
bath and north east somerset council have awarded a 7 year contract to virgin care to deliver community health and care services in the area .
virgin care has been awarded another pair of nhs contracts after being announced as the new community and urgent care provider by west lancashire ccg .
virgin care, part of sir richard branson’s business empire, already holds nearly 330 nhs contracts .
virgin care refute suggestions that the company will not pay tax at some point in the future .
the ultimate owners of virgin care and virgin group holdings ltd include trusts registered in the british virgin islands whose beneficiaries are richard branson and his family. the british virgin islands are a tax haven and entities registered there pay no tax. as a result of the link with the british virgin islands, questions have been raised over whether tax would be paid in the uk if virgin care made a profit .
in 2017, virgin care ran over 400 nhs services, but despite the scale of its business the company shows no signs of making a profit. indeed, according to its accounts, since 2010 the company has recorded an annual loss in the uk. as virgin care ltd makes no profit in the uk, the company pays no tax in the uk. however, virgin care ltd is a small entity in richard branson’s virgin empire. virgin care’s ultimate parent company is virgin group holdings ltd registered in the tax haven of the british virgin islands .
under the contract, virgin care will run three statutory services – adult social care, continuing healthcare and children’s community health – from april 2017 .
a £700m contract to provide community health and care in bath and north east somerset over the next seven years has been approved for virgin care .
services will be transferred from not - for - profit social enterprise sirona to virgin care next april .
the deal will see virgin care take over more than 200 health and care services in people' s homes and communities, in such areas as district nursing, dementia care and supporting vulnerable children .
“virgin care could demonstrate through documentary evidence that following acquisition of services, they had managed to bring about a sustained, significant improvement to patient care. ”
richard branson’s virgin care is to take over sheppey and sittingbourne hospitals as part of a £126 million deal .
virgin is to become the first private firm to run adult social care after winning a controversial £700million contract .
virgin care has started a high court action against nhs bodies and surrey county council over a procurement dispute .
the move by virgin care to acquire 100% ownership was reported to be due to possible conflicts of interest between gps in the virgin care practices and the newly introduced ccgs. it appears that many gps chose to take full control of the gp provider companies, rather than relinquish control to virgin care and by 2015, the number of contracts for primary care services, including gp services, held by virgin care had reduced substantially to 30, 19 of which were gp practices .
concerns over care quality began in 2012, when channel 4' s documentary series dispatches focused on virgin care' s business in a programme entitled' getting rich on the nhs'. the programme reported on virgin care' s clinic in northampton, which patients claim has become over reliant on locum gps and virgin care had failed in its commitment to extend opening hours .
the community hospitals, community nursing, intermediate care, community neuro rehabilitation, speech and language therapy, podiatry and continence services will all transfer to virgin care .
in july 2012 virgin care won a three year £131 million contract to provide a range of core nhs and social care services for children and adolescents in devon .
virgin care provides health and care services across the country. since 2006 they have treated more than six million people, making sure that everyone feels the difference .
then in october 2017, hsj reported that virgin care was demanding an extra £5 million from east staffordshire ccg .
part of the virgin group, we make a real difference to people’s lives through our health and care services .
we’re incredibly proud of the work we’ve done. you can hear more about virgin care from sir richard branson and our chief executive bart johnson, and read about sir richard branson’s pride for virgin care in his blog here .
a tory - led council last night agreed sir richard branson’s virgin care could run more than 200 nhs services .
the end of life care contract had three remaining bidders: virgin care, optum and an interserve consortium. however, in july 2017 the process was abandoned entirely .
the private company will run or oversee more than 200 health care and social care services in the area .
virgin care has two arms to its business in the hnhs: primary care services, including gp services and walk - in centres; and community - based nhs services .
virgin care’s strategy has been to target large contracts containing numerous services in the area of community health and social care and increase the use of digital technology to reduce costs .
each limited company and llp reports its turnover individually, however they are all subsidiaries of virgin care ltd, which in turn is a subsidiary of the holding company virgin healthcare holdings ltd .
in 2016 the end of virgin care’s surrey - wide community health contract loomed and the whole process of tendering began again. interestingly, the ccgs in surrey decided to split the large contract that had been run by virgin care, into smaller contracts .
primary and secondary school immunisation programme in devon awarded to virgin care in december 2017 valued at almost £4. 7 million over ;
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treatment for people with diabetes will be among the services operated by virgin care under the deal. photograph: peter byrne / pa
virgin australia’s support also includes providing flights for care aid workers to reach poor communities and helping care to deploy staff experts to assist communities affected by emergencies in the asia - pacific region .
with the bath and north east somerset contract won in 2016, virgin care became the first private company to take over adult social care services, including social workers. the essex contract won in 2017 also contains a large chunk of social care .
virgin care ltd is registered in the uk, however, an analysis by richard murphy, a chartered accountant at tax research uk, found 13 holding companies, some of them offshore, between virgin care and its ultimate parent company, virgin group holdings ltd based in the tax haven of the british virgin islands. virgin group holdings ltd’s principal beneficiaries are sir richard branson, reported to have a net worth of £2. 7bn, and his family. according to murphy’s analysis, this type of company structure makes it unlikely that virgin care will pay any tax in the uk in the foreseeable future .
dr john caine, chair of the ccg, said: “we are pleased to announce that virgin care has been successful in this process. through the bid virgin care demonstrated a true understanding of our vision and we are assured it will deliver a quality service for our local community within this new model of care. ”
despite the company structure, which makes it unlikely to pay any tax in the uk in the foreseeable future, according to murphy, virgin care recently won contracts worth £500m to provide 30 primary care services across england, including gp practices, gp out - of - hours services, walk - in centres, urgent care centres and minor injury units. its website claims virgin care, which became part of the virgin group in 2010, runs 230 nhs and social care services while employing 5, 500 people .
private firm virgin care is to take over running nhs community health services in two parts of surrey in a £500m (€605m; $ 791m) deal agreed with the local primary care trust .
as a result of losing the tender bidding process for a children' s community care contract in surrey, virgin care l aunched legal proceedings in november 2016 against all eight commissioning organisations involved in the contract. a spokesman for virgin care told hsj that concerns about “serious flaws in the procurement process” prompted the company to launch proceedings .
a virgin care spokesman added: “we have been providing community health and care services for a decade, working with a range of partners to look after more than a million people a year. ”
virgin care provider services reported turnover of £5. 4 million leading to a loss of £407 thousand for the year to end march 2017 .
according to the bath chronicle, it is understood virgin care will reinvest any profit made from its services in bath and north east somerset .
this support has already begun, with virgin australia supporting care to get additional staff into vanuatu after cyclone pam devastated the pacific island nation .
dr newton - howes added that virgin australia’s support would be critical in helping care deliver life - saving aid during times of international crises .
claire heneghan, chief nurse of nhs west lancashire ccg, said virgin care would “develop and enhance community and local walk - in and out of hour’s services” in order to relieve pressures on urgent care .
an analysis by richard murphy, a chartered accountant at tax research uk, has found 13 holding companies, some of them offshore, between virgin care and its ultimate parent company, based in the british virgin islands .
in march 2015, an investigation by richard murphy, a chartered accountant at tax research uk, highlighted the use of tax havens by virgin care and other private companies working with the nhs. the investigation found 13 holding companies, some of them offshore, between virgin care and its ultimate parent company, based in the british virgin islands, a tax haven .
sir richard branson’s health firm, virgin care, has won a £700m contract to deliver 200 types of nhs and social care services to more than 200, 000 people in bath and north - east somerset .
virgin care won a £280 million contract in march 2015 to provide services for the frail and elderly in east staffordshire. virgin care will be the prime provider under this seven - year contract and could sub - contract the work to other organisations. this is a fixed - price contract .
since we started on our journey we’ve been focused on delivering high quality care, good value and the fantastic customer service you’d expect from virgin .
judge deems decision to select virgin care as preferred bidder for county’s £132m children services contract was initially unlawful but rules deal should not be quashed .
virgin care was chosen over a consortium led by the social enterprise sirona care and health, which included avon and wiltshire mental health partnership trust, royal united hospitals bath foundation trust, dorothy house hospice care, and the gp organisation bath and north east somerset enhanced medical services .
virgin care has been very successful in winning contracts with the nhs, but if it does not win, the company will turn to the courts .
virgin care bid for but did not win the surrey - wide children' s community care contract; this was awarded to an alliance between surrey and borders partnership foundation trust and two social enterprises, csh surrey and first community health. the three year contract was worth £82 million. previously virgin care had run these services together with csh surrey and first community health .
there are concerns with the way virgin care runs its gp services. the sutherland lodge practice in chelmsford, essex, was taken over by virgin in july 2016 after the previous partners handed back their contracts following £400, 000 funding cuts to their contract. prior to the takeover, the practice was rated outstanding, but in may 2018 the care quality commission (cqc) rated the surgery inadequate overall. the rating is based on an inspection carried out in december 2017 just 18 months after virgin care took over the practice. virgin care also received more money for the contract than the previous gps .
the procurement process for both the end - of - life care and cancer care since 2013 has cost the commissioners over £840, 000 .
hsj reported that minutes from the burton hospitals’ board meeting on 12 january said: “the trust would have been in a position to sign the contract had it been able to reach an agreement with virgin care, however, this had not been possible…virgin care were discussing their contract issues with the ccg and a meeting had been scheduled between nhs england, nhs improvement, virgin care and the ccg…virgin care was clear that its issues with the ccg would need to be resolved prior to entering into a contract agreement with the trust. ” this could have a major impact on the burton hospitals foundation trust' s finances .
virgin care did not win the bristol contract, but the issue of tax avoidance did not disappear. in 2016, campaigners reiterated their concerns over tax avoidance as well as other issues whilst campaigning against privatisation of community services in bath and north east somerset; virgin care was the preferred provider for this contract .
in march 2017, ccg board papers seen by the hsj revealed that virgin care and east staffordshire ccg were in dispute over contractual arrangements. this dispute has impacted on burton hospitals foundation trust; the trust is unable to agree a contract with virgin care under the prime provider model due to the ccg dispute .
since we started on our journey in 2006 we’ve been focused on delivering high quality care, good value and the fantastic customer service you’d expect from virgin .
the collapse of the £725m unitingcare contract in cambridgeshire meant virgin’s newly acquired contract would be the most lucrative ongoing deal for providing nhs care, he said .
the other bidders for community care were another private company, optum health solutions, and two nhs foundation trusts, lancashire care and bridgewater community healthcare. optum was the only other bidder for the urgent care contract .
since 2010 when virgin care was formed the company has not reported a profit but a loss of around £9 to £10 million each financial year. no profit means no tax is paid in the uk. however, virgin care’s position within the complex structure of richard branson’s empire has raised some questions about tax liabilities .
virgin australia group executive public affairs danielle keighery said, “care australia has an outstanding history of supporting millions in some of the poorest communities across the region and as a major provider of vital air services in the asia pacific region, virgin australia is proud to be standing alongside care to help support the region. ”
in 2012, virgin care was the first private company to win a large contract for community services when it took over the provision of community care in surrey under a five year contract and the provision of children’s services in devon .
the dispute was settled in november 2017 with a payment to virgin care by the ccgs involved. the amount actually paid to virgin care is unclear. hsj saw details of a payment by nhs surrey downs in governing body papers, but these were removed from the website soon after. hsj notes what happened as follows :
trade union unison said members were
anxious
about virgin care taking over and it would hold the firm
to the high standard the workforce deserve
.
virgin' s use of tax havens within its corporate structure, such as the british virgin islands, has led to controversy in the media. it also proved a component in a campaign against virgin care being awarded a contract with bristol ccg for children’s community services. in the end the contract was awarded to a community interest group .
a virgin care spokesman said :
we have a very strong track record of providing nhs care to vulnerable groups including children for many years now. , strengthened with extensive expertise through our contract to provide community services in surrey .
in october 2017, the legal case was settled with a payout to virgin care. the full amount of the payout is undisclosed, however the surrey downs ccg noted in governing board papers that it had paid virgin care £328, 000. as six other ccgs and one council were involved and all paid virgin a similar amount then the full amount paid to virgin could be as high as £2. 6 million. it is not clear what the payout covered or if nhs england also made a payout .
in february 2016, the hsj reported that virgin care had made a legal challenge over hull ccgs plans for primary care provision in its area. hull ccg wants to create geographical groups of practices, each operating as larger scale providers. however, the initial plan to create the groups, by inviting groups of gps to take over practices currently run under time limited contracts, was challenged by virgin care .
labour mp for dewsbury, paula sherriff, revealed under parliamentary privilege in the house of commons, that when she worked for virgin care the company forced patients to attend extra appointments to boost profits. sherriff accused virgin care of insisting on “extra consultations before surgery, boosting their profits at the expense of the taxpayer and patient safety” .
nhs campaigners warned that the history of previous privatisations of nhs services in other parts of england may mean the quality of care patients receive drops once virgin takes over .
virgin care has developed and launched the care coordination centre model which is helping keep people healthy, happy and at home. our innovative technology, bringing together records from the whole health service, is allowing our care navigators to empower patients to look after their own health, stay well and reduce pressure on hospital services .
“employees need clear recognition from virgin that a well - run health service means investment in staff. our priority is an effective public service that values staff, and we will hold virgin care to the high standard that the workforce and the local community deserve. ”
“virgin australia has demonstrated that it is strongly committed to supporting the community. we are thrilled that virgin australia will be supporting our work across the region. this partnership will help to ensure that every dollar australians donate to care goes further, ” she said .
baroness morgan of huyton, an ex - director of failed care home firm southern cross, is a paid member of the advisory committee board for virgin group holdings ltd .
virgin care has become a major player in the market for nhs services since it entered the healthcare market in 2010. over the past seven years the company has been awarded contracts worth well over £2 billion, with several large contracts in community health. virgin care has probably been the most active private company in the area of nhs contracts for community health and in 2016 the company made the move into adult social care .
in january 2018, virgin care private, a new business venture from virgin care, opened its first health and wellbeing centre in birmingham. this is a purely pay - as - you - go service with no nhs contracts and no need for private health insurance. this is a new departure for virgin care, but is one of a number of private gp and health services that have sprung up around the country taking advantage of the difficulties in getting gp appointments and long waits for services. virgin care private allows a patient to jump queues if they have the money. the centre offers gp appointments, diagnostic tests, a range of specialist consultations, as well as psychological therapies .
virgin care was awarded two five - year contracts together worth £65 million in december 2016 by west lancashire ccg. the community health services contract is worth £45 million and the urgent care services is worth £20 million; both start on 1 april 2017 .
“we will be working closely with the council and our new partners, virgin care, over the coming months to ensure that services and staff are transferred across safely on 1 april 2017 and to minimise disruption to the care and support that people currently receive. ”
commercial: nhs dorset has named virgin care as preferred provider of medical and community services at lyme regis medical centre in a contract worth up to £8. 5m over five years .
the mother' s lawyers argue that the council and nhs trust failed to comply with equalities legislation and their own equality policy, including by not conducting an equality impact assessment. they say virgin care failed to carry out a timely and comprehensive equality impact assessment. the lawyers are asking the court to declare the decision to give virgin care preferred bidder status unlawful .
a tory - led council agreed sir richard branson’s virgin care could run more than 200 nhs services - and campaigners fear it is the start of the health service being sold off .
in august 2016 virgin care was chosen as preferred bidder to take on a seven year contract, worth around £700 million with an option to extend for three years, to coordinate over 200 health and social care services in bath and north somerset. the contract was awarded in november 2016 despite substantial opposition. this is a prime provider contract with virgin care directly delivering and coordinating services, but with the option to subcontract to other providers where appropriate .
virgin care also did not win the contract for children' s community services in surrey. however, in this case, virgin care began legal proceedings in november 2016 against the eight commissioning organisations involved. by october 2017, virgin care was running, and this was only on an interim basis, adult community services for north east hampshire and farnham ccg, which is only a tiny proportion of the original 2012 - 2017 contract. this contract is a one year extension of the 2012 / 17 contract. as of march 2018 virgin has ageed to extend adult community care in the surrey health and north east hampshire and farnham ccgs for a year, this is worth £10. 8 million and will serve 135, 000 people .
“but staff are anxious about virgin care taking over. services are already under intense strain because of the government' s failure to invest in social care. many community health staff are paid a pittance, despite the long hours they put in and their dedicated work .
in late 2017, virgin care also launched the first virgin care private pay - as - you - go health and wellbeing clinic in birmingham, offering local people the extra choice and convenience of a city centre service and relaunched the feel the difference fund, £100, 000 of ring - fenced funding dedicated to empowering our colleagues to implement their ideas for improving services .
care australia ceo, dr julia newton - howes said the partnership with virgin australia was built on the shared belief that australians have the power to change thousands of lives for the better .
virgin care, which has been handed contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds to run more than 230 nhs and social care services, is one of at least 10 private health firms seeking state - funded contracts whose company structures include tax havens, it can be revealed .
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virgin will also run the urgent care facility at paulton community hospital, which is 12 miles from bath, and subcontract a number of other services to other providers, including the provision of dementia and end of life care and a “hospital from home” service for recently discharged patients .
in january 2016 virgin won a bid to run adult community services across dartford, gravesham, swanley and swale region of north kent. this seven year contract is worth £18 million per year and could be extended for an extra three years. virgin care will take the contract from kent community health foundation trust, which reported that it lost out to virgin care in the area of price. kent community health foundation trust, said it scored ”slightly higher” on quality in the assessment process .
originally virgin care was strong in the area of gp services, however since the advent of ccgs the company has reduced the number of gp surgeries substantially. in october 2012 virgin care announced that it would be taking over all jointly owned gp - provider companies, to give virgin group 100% ownership of assura medical. this meant that over 300 gps would have to relinquish stakes in the gp provider companies. at this point 358 surgeries were listed as being part of these provider companies .
the problem with virgin care’s use of receptionists to triage patients had already been noted by cqc inspectors: mrs mandal died two months after a cqc inspection of the urgent care centre, in which the inspectors noted :
we were concerned that there was a risk of a patient with a serious illness or injury being wrongly streamed and their condition deteriorating .
a & e doctors had also voiced fears about the virgin care centre' s triage system, the inquest heard .
employees need clear recognition from virgin that a well - run health service means investment in staff .
two nhs foundation trusts have won a high court challenge over lancashire county council’s decision to award a contract to virgin care for the provision of public health and nursing services to children and young people .
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the senior coroner at the inquest said she would write to croydon ccg, which buys in the virgin care service, with her concerns about the triage system, which gives receptionists with no medical training responsibility for deciding if patients need emergency treatment. virgin care are reported to have defended the use of a non - medically trained receptionist to triage patients and said that mrs mandal had been “correctly streamed” .
sutherland lodge surgery in chelmsford - virgin care took over this surgery in july 2016 after cuts in pms funding forced the gp partners to hand back the contract. the cqc had rated the surgery as outstanding .
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in november 2016, virgin care was reported to be in the running for the £535 million contract for end - of - life care in staffordshire. the tender process for this ten year contract had been restarted; it was put on hold following the collapse of the unitingcare contract in cambridgeshire and peterborough .
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virgin care services ltd reported a turnover of £204 million (up from £133. 6 million 2016 financial year), leading to a profit of almost £8. 2 million in the year to end march 2017 .
jonathan ashworth mp, labour’s shadow health secretary, said: “under the tories, hospitals are facing financial crisis while patient care suffers yet all the tories offer is further cuts and outsourcing to private companies like virgin .
last month devon county council and devon primary care trust confirmed they had selected virgin care to take over the running of services for children with disabilities, the children' s mental health service, and school nurses and health visitors, from 1 april next year. the contract, worth more than £100m, has not yet been signed. bids by the nhs and charities with expertise in children' s services were rejected. it has not been disclosed what changes, if any, virgin care plans to make to the services .
the council and the clinical commissioning group say virgin' s proposed model is based upon two years of expert consultation .
a virgin care spokesperson said: “we are really pleased to have been selected to deliver the local vision for urgent and community care across west lancashire. we look forward to continuing our engagement with the local community so we can provide a high quality service that has been shaped by the people who use it. ”
virgin care ltd alone reported turnover for the period of £42 million, with a loss of £19. 3 million and no tax was paid. income is entirely derived from nhs contracts and from work in the uk .
as a result of losing the tender bidding process, in november 2016 virgin care l aunched legal proceedings against all eight commissioning organisations involved in the contract. a spokesperson for virgin care told hsj that concerns about “serious flaws in the procurement process” prompted the company to launch proceedings. speaking about the contract when it was run by virgin and the two social enterprises, guildford and waverley ccg’s wellbeing and health scrutiny board said that children and young people had experienced “service variation with differing access for families…a well as gaps in service provision and variation in waiting times. ”
the new service will combine a range of existing services, including the healthy child programme, healthy schools, family nurse partnership and children’s centres. this contract contains social care as well as health care .
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virgin care is well aware of the criticism its involvement in the nhs has garnered, in particular the fact that it pays no tax in the uk and its links to a tax haven. the issue of virgin’s links to a tax haven was a major issue in its bid for a contract to run bristol’s children’s community health services in 2015 .
virgin will run sittingbourne memorial hospital and sheppey community hospital as well as livingstone hospital in dartford and gravesham hospital in gravesend .
in december 2017 virgin care was awarded the five year contract for the 0 - 19 year healthy child programme in lancashire by lancashire county council. the contract covers school nurses, health visitors and many other services for young people. previously it was run by lancashire care trust under a contract that expires at the end of march 2018 .
there are also issues with regard to care quality concerns one of virgin care’s biggest contracts. it came to light in october 2017 and was reported in the bath chronicle that virgin care managers had been asked to ‘hold off’ from contacting the cqc as the company struggled with it issues, despite managers having a legal obligation to report concerns. as a result of these issues, in the first three months of the contract, “patients had appointments cancelled, letters and reports were not sent out, and nurses had problems updating patient records, ” according to the bath chronicle .
currently, community care in bath & north east somerset is run by non - for profit company sirona .
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the company has acquired a string of nhs contracts recently, including a £700m health and care co - ordination contract in bath and north east somerset and a £17m a year community care contract in guildford and waverley .
the council said it was
an exciting new chapter in the integration of health and care services
.
in march 2016, it was reported that the start of this contract had been delayed by a month and began 1 may 2016; this was due to the need to finalize some arrangements, according to the ccg and virgin care .
in october 2017, hsj reported that virgin care is demanding more money from the ccgs. no amount has been officially confirmed, but hsj noted
that sources have told hsj the private provider has asked for nearly £5m extra .
it means that from 1 april virgin care will become the prime provider of a wide range of care for adults and children. that will include everything from services for those with diabetes, dementia or who have suffered a stroke, as well as people with mental health conditions. it will also cover care of children with learning disabilities and frail, elderly people who are undergoing rehabilitation to enable them to go back to living at home safely after an operation .
in early 2017, according to virgin' s website it was still running many but not all children' s services in devon. virgin care' s contract was extended whilst the ccg decided what to do. a report in the hsj in january 2018, said that virgin is considering bidding for all of devon' s children' s services again. the contract is worth £259 million over seven years and the procurement process could start in febraury 2018 with a projected ocntract start in april 2019 .
eight out of about 50 surgeries in hull are run under alternative provider medical services (apms) contracts, which are due to expire in march and three of these are run by virgin care. hull ccg now has to undertake a full procurement process in four lots for the future provision of the primary medical care services currently provided through the apms contracts. critics note the additional cost that a full procurement process will place upon an already cash - strapped ccg. in march 2017, the four lots were awarded to new providers; virgin care did not bid for any of the lots .
murphy’s research also found that virgin care borrows money solely from a virgin holding company and reports that it will repay that loan, which will be corporation tax - deductible, when a profit starts to be recorded. that holding company is based in the uk but it, in turn, owes money to other parts of the virgin business, whose ultimate parent company is in the british virgin islands. this type of corporate set - up has potential for reducing or eliminating the tax liabilities of operating companies; a company in the uk could always report a loss due to loan repayments to sister companies thereby never having to pay tax .
virgin was given preferred provider status for the £176 million adult community services for guildford and waverley ccg in august 2016. virgin had run these services under the previous all - surrey contract. however, in february 2017 the ccg governing body reviewed the progress being made to mobilise the new service, and as a result it decided not to progress with virgin and has since begun a reprocurement process .
in november 2016, essex county council awarded a seven year contract to virgin care, in partnership with barnardo’s, to run its pre - birth to 19 health, wellbeing and family support service across essex. the contract began in april 2017 .
the mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, says her two children, aged nine and 13, both of whom receive treatment for mental health problems, could be adversely affected by the planned takeover by branson' s company virgin care .
virgin provides primary healthcare to several other prisons, including hmp coldingly, hmp bure, hmp downview, hmp wayland, and hmp highdown .
a virgin care spokesman said: “we’re looking forward to working with the many outstanding professionals, and a range of great partners, to provide and oversee high quality, easy - to - navigate services which are shaped by the people who use them. ”
it won foundation status on march 1 last year and was rated ‘good’ by the care quality commission in september 2014 .
it' s the first time a for - profit company will deliver a council' s social care for adults .
virgin care ltd was founded in march 2010 when virgin acquired a majority stake in assura medical; the renaming took place in march 2012. assura began life in 2003 as a property investment company, the medical property investment fund limited (mpif), which then became assura medical in 2006. the property arm of assura continues to trade as a separate company listed on the lse as assura group ltd .
“i am pleased that we can now start the process of transferring services. following extensive consultation with local people and a very rigorous procurement process, the ccg board is assured that virgin care is the right organisation to deliver the personalised and preventative care that local people have asked for, ” said dr ian orpen, the clinical chair of bath and north east somerset clinical commissioning group .
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while not currently recording a profit in the uk after administrative expenses, virgin care borrows money solely from a holding company and says it will repay that loan, which will be corporation tax - deductible, when a profit starts to be recorded. that holding company is based in the uk but it, in turn, owes money to other parts of the virgin empire, whose ultimate parent company is in the british virgin islands. its principal beneficiaries are billionaire businessman sir richard branson, reported to have a net worth of £2. 7bn, and his family .
a virgin care spokesman said :
we' re looking forward to working with the many outstanding professionals, and a range of great partners, to provide and oversee high quality, easy - to - navigate services which are shaped by the people who use them .
since 2012 the company has won a number of large contracts covering community services, including ones in west lancashire, essex, north kent, wiltshire and in bath and north east somerset. at the end of 2017, virgin care reported that it provided over 400 services around england .
a virgin care spokesperson said: “during the feedback from the commissioner we became concerned that there may have been serious flaws in the procurement process leading to an outcome that we strongly feel is not in the best interests of either the children and families we support or our valued colleagues .
and nearly 3, 000 local residents have protested the contract via a petition by the campaign group 38 degrees. the authors of the petition – “don’t let virgin take over our community health service” – claimed that if the contract was awarded to virgin “it will contribute to the rapidly advancing privatisation of the nhs” .
in september 2015 an inquest heard of the death in september 2013 of madhumita mandal of multiple organ failure and sepsis. mrs mandal visited the virgin care run urgent care centre in croydon in agony and vomiting, according to her husband, where she was triaged by a receptionist with no medical training, as not seriously ill enough to see the a & e doctor but put on the list to see a nurse .
in april 201 7, it was revealed that virgin care is in dispute with east staffordshire ccg over arrangements in the seven - year prime provider contract for frail elderly patients, people with long term conditions and intermediate care. the exact nature of the dispute had not been reported, but the dispute has had a knock - on affect on burton hospitals foundation trust and could have implications for the finances of the trust .
in december 2015 virgin care won a £64 million, five - year contract, to provide community health services in wiltshire for children, including children’s specialist community nursing, speech and language therapy and health visitors. the contract began in april 2016 and is worth £12. 8 million per year .
“if and when i could take a dividend from virgin care (which would make us a profit over and above our overall investment), i will invest 100% of that money back into helping nhs patients young and old, with our frontline employees deciding how best to spend it. ”
in june 2018, the decision by lancashire county council to award this £104 million contract was thrown out by a high court judge following the legal challenge from nhs trusts. the local authority’s process was deemed to be flawed in awarding this contract to virgin care. the judge, justice stuart - smith, stated the council’s decision to score virgin’s bid more highly than that of the nhs trusts’ was not substantially supported in its notes of the scoring procedure .
virgin care has been handed the contract by both bath and north east somerset nhs clinical commissioning group and conservative - led bath and north east somerset council. it is worth £70m a year for seven years and the contract includes an option to extend it by another three years at the same price .
due to the weight of opposition against virgin care being awarded the contract, additions were made to the contract. according to councillor vic pritchard, cabinet member for adult social care and health at bath and north east somerset council there is a clause in the contract that would require “any financial surplus made by the new prime provider to be reinvested into services in bath and north east somerset”. it is unclear whether this means the virgin will operate not - for - profit as it should be noted that definitions of
financial surplus
can vary widely. the contract has been opposed by unions and social work leaders .
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virgin is expected to take over on april 1. the contract was awarded by nhs swale clinical commissioner group and nhs dartford, gravesham and swanley clinical commissioning group (dgs ccg) .
the decision to work with virgin follows an exhaustive tendering process that has involved a large number of parents, carers, professionals and young people themselves as well as affected staff .
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in late 2017, virgin care private was launched, the company' s first venture in purely private healthcare. this business venture opened its first health and wellbeing centre in birmingham in january 2018. this centre provides gp services, specialist consultations, diagnostics and tests and well - being services all on a pay - as - you - go service .
virgin care was awarded the contract for integrated sexual health service across the boroughs of hartlepool, middlesbrough, redcar and cleveland and stockton - on - tees in may 2016 by the council' s of these areas. the contract is for five years with an option to extend to nine years. the five year contract is worth £36. 2 million.
virgin care is a private provider of services to the national health service in england . it owns 24 gp-led provider companies that provide nhs services through networks of gp surgeries ; and community-based nhs services . 
virgin care is a private provider of services to the national health service in england. it owns 24 gp-led provider companies that provide nhs services through networks of gp surgeries; and community-based nhs services.
virgin care is a private provider of services to the national health service in england. it owns 24 gp-led provider companies that provide nhs services through networks of gp surgeries; and community-based nhs services.