{"id":429248,"date":"2026-02-16T21:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/429248\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:09:08","slug":"council-leaders-discussed-private-healthcare-plans-for-hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/429248\/","title":{"rendered":"Council leaders discussed private healthcare plans for HQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also denied it had plans for a private hospital on the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC understands a private hospital or renting space to private health providers for areas such as dental care were put forward as a possible alternative to the plans and received &#8220;mixed reaction&#8221; from the Reform cabinet. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The proposal was said to be at an early stage and has not been progressed to more formal development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">County councils cannot unilaterally set up private hospitals, which in the UK are normally provided by private healthcare companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, it would be possible for the authority to provide services on a commercial basis as part of a joint venture, so long as it was legally sound and did not conflict with local NHS commissioning responsibilities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It would still, however, be incredibly rare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It also denied it had plans for a private hospital on the site. The BBC understands a private&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-429248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}