UnitedHealth Group to Advise England’s National Health Service Primary Care Trusts on Population Needs Assessments & Contracting

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News In June 2010, UnitedHealth Group subsidiary UnitedHealth UK won a contract to advise the National Health Service’s (NHS) primary care trusts in England on commissioning—conducting population health needs assessments and arranging contracts to meet the expected needs. UnitedHealth UK is a division of Ingenix, UnitedHealth Group’s health care information technology services and consulting arm. The English Department of Health (DH) has recently proposed decentralizing the NHS to enable greater local control of health care resources and to permit patient choice. The plan, as described in a proposal released . . .