Going private: a new generation of consumers?

The Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) recently released a major new report on public perceptions of private healthcare, Going Private 2023. Director of policy...

Time to grow

As demand for private healthcare is sustained, LaingBuisson’s Private Acute Healthcare Conference heard how operators are seizing the opportunities for expansion across all areas...

Wellbeing in the workplace

Dr Davina Deniszczyc, charity and medical director at Nuffield Health, shares some of the insights from its latest Healthier Nation Index and discusses why...

Supporting recovery with technology 

Tom Whicher, CEO and founder at DrDoctor, looks at how giving patients more power to manage their appointments could help reduce the elective backlog NHS...

Joining up the opportunities: electronic health records in mental health

Healthcare IT is underpinned by strong underlying market dynamics as well as being highly resilient against macroeconomic, geopolitical and other exogenous shocks. A recent...

The hardware of healthcare

Durable medical equipment might not be glamourous but personal mobility devices and home adaptation equipment are critical to healthcare delivery, made all the more...

Beyond the headlines – admission trends

In the latest column from the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN), Pooja Rupalia-Seyani, analytics manager, and Joshua Vaughan, healthcare data analyst, share detailed national...

Expanding choice

Recent moves to strengthen NHS patient choice could see more NHS patients treated in the private sector. King Edward VII’s Hospital’s head of operations...

Obesity treatment and the rise of the GLP-1 agonist

Beyond beach body social media doom scrolling there are serious global health consequences from obesity. Dr Bharadwaj Chada and Dr Michelle Tempest at Candesic...

NHS Private Patient Units – seizing the opportunity

Outside of London, NHS PPUs are generally overlooked and underinvested, but as NHS waits continue to rise, they have the potential to generate significant...