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View from the peak

With around 200 delegates attending each of the two days, LaingBuisson’s virtual Private Healthcare Summit was the largest gathering of key stakeholders in the sector since...

Looking back at lockdown

A new report published by IHPN examines how the sector has responded to the needs of the NHS during the first three months of...

Resetting the provider/ insurer relationship

In the first of a three-part series exploring the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the private healthcare market, Check4Cancer chief medical officer Professor Gordon...

Digital transmission: how Covid-19 is transforming primary care

The speed at which primary care has adopted virtual consultation during the Covid-19 pandemic highlights the ability of digital to disrupt existing models of...

Balancing act: maintaining privacy in the digital age

The Covid-19 pandemic has spawned overnight growth in digital healthcare solutions, but what has been vital for the continuation of services has also put...

Not We…Us: adapting to support the NHS through the Covid-19 crisis and beyond

Like many independent healthcare providers, Transform Hospital Group turned over its capacity to the NHS in March as part of the national effort to...

Regulation in mental health hospitals

Confidence in the independent mental health sector was rocked following the Winterbourne View and Whorlton Hall scandals but regulators, commissioners and governments also have...

Adapting regulation for a health emergency

Covid-19 arrived swiftly and has spread rapidly, prompting the need for speed and agility never seen before in healthcare regulation. Rachel Cooper and Natasha...

Visualising possibilities in healthcare estate

Virtual reality is transforming the way we visualise space and opening up exciting new possibilities in healthcare design. David Broderick, operations director for ISG’s...

Ticket to ride: the potential of Covid-19 ‘immunity passports’

As widespread community testing for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies gets underway, will society be divided into the ‘immunes’ and the ‘non-immunes’? Dr Joe Taylor, principal at...