Our members currently employ or contract over 150,000 people who deliver high quality care to millions of patients every day. IHPN plays a key role in working with government, the NHS, professional colleges, and regulators to ensure the independent healthcare workforce can grow and thrive.
News
02/10/2023
The Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) has signed an NHS England workplace charter, committing to a zero-tolerance approach to any unwanted, inappropriate and/or harmful sexual behaviours across the organisation.
News
12/09/2023
Dawn Hodgkins, director of regulation, Independent Healthcare Providers Network, has reacted to a damning report which highlights the terrible experience of female surgeons. Hodgkins said: “This report is deeply concerning, and lays bare the shocking extent to which female surgeons are being treated appallingly in their place of work."
News
30/06/2023
IHPN has responded to the publication of the Long Term Workforce Plan for the NHS, describing its arrival as "an important step forward".
Blog
05/06/2023
Danielle Henry says that the government's failure to centrally fund the NHS pay deal for key community workers is just the latest example of the community sector being the "poor relation"
News
30/05/2023
IHPN has written, along with key sector partners, to the Secretary of State, calling on him to ensure the pay deal is fully funded, protecting key NHS services.
Blog
11/04/2023
David Hare blogs on the implications of last month's budget, positive news on occupational health, pensions, the workforce and the impact of strike action.
News
11/04/2023
Independent providers will work to minimise disruption and support consultants during junior doctors strikes, says IHPN CEO, David Hare.
Reports
13/10/2022
To mark Allied Health Professions Day 2022, this report looks at just some of the inspiring stories of AHPs working in the independent healthcare sector today.
News
10/03/2022
Over 4,000 NHS junior doctors have undertaken their training in independent healthcare providers since 2020, following a landmark agreement to increase training opportunities in the sector.
Reports
10/03/2022
This report looks at how independent healthcare providers have supported NHS junior doctors through the pandemic and what more can be done to ensure trainee clinicians can more easily access high quality training in the independent sector.
Blog
16/02/2022
Six months on from our 2021 Industry Barometer, IHPN's Danielle Henry takes another look at what the Barometer told us and what has changed, if anything, since then.
News
01/02/2022
IHPN responds to the Government’s decision to reverse their position on mandatory covid vaccinations for health and care professionals