Mobile diagnostics service launches in London
Thought to be the first of its kind in the UK, a start-up mobile diagnostics service called VisitHealth has launched in the London area, enabling patients to undergo a range of medical tests from home. People who have difficulties coming into a GP surgery, including…
NHS England upholds objection to GP at Hand expansion
Objections to the roll out of London-based digital practice GP at Hand in Birmingham have been upheld by NHS England amid ‘outstanding concerns’ about patient access to screening services in the city. Last month Hammersmith and Fulham Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) objected to GP at…
Fiona Booth joins Healthcode
Fiona Booth (pictured), the former chief executive of the Association of Independent Healthcare Organisations, is to take up a position at Healthcode, an IT services provider for the private healthcare sector which handles £3bn of medical invoices annually. As head of provider programmes and strategy,…
Healthcare at Home appoints CFO
Spencer Sheridan has been appointed chief financial officer (CFO) at Healthcare at Home. Sheridan has board-level experience within a number of sectors including facilities management, catering, security and technology solutions. He takes over from Mike Killick who has been interim CFO since October 2017. Commenting…
Patients waiting over 18 weeks for surgery to double to almost one million
The number of people waiting over the 18-week target for elective surgery will double to reach nearly one million in six years, according to new analysis by the NHS Partners Network (NHSPN). According to its analysis of NHS waiting times in England, without ‘urgent action’…
The DOLLAR$ in DIALYSIS
The dialysis market is highly consolidated but is there room for growth? Sam Coates, Gonçalo Silva and Dr Victor Chua of Mansfield Advisors assess how investors can drive profits globally At first glance, the dialysis market appears highly consolidated. The three largest players, Fresenius Medical…...
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AXA PPP launches health plan with coaching service
AXA PPP healthcare has launched a new health plan for companies, which includes telephone coaching to help improve employee health and wellbeing. The Realise Health Plan combines biometric and online health assessments provided by LiveSmart with personal coaching, including a 50-minute telephone session to review…
Waiting times for eating disorder services shorten
New figures released by NHS England indicate that waiting times for routine child and adolescent eating disorder services have shortened. The experimental figures published today show that 81.2% of patients referred for routine treatment were seen within four weeks in the first quarter of 2018/19…
Ealing tenders community services contract
Ealing CCG has tendered a £450m ten-year contract for the running of community services in the west-London borough. The contract will run from May 2019, and according to HSJ, has attracted interest from ‘at least’ two NHS trusts which ‘could be competing’ with private healthcare operator…
UDG Healthcare sells division
Healthcare services provider UDG Healthcare has sold its Aquilant division – a distributor of medical, pharmaceutical and scientific products – to European private equity firm H2 Equity Partners for a potential sum of up to €23m (£20m). Aquilant provides services, including outsourced sales, marketing and…
