London’s private hospitals: growing capacity, dwindling profit?
On the face of it, Central London’s private hospital sector is in good health. Revenues are on the up and big international names remain...
Industrial action and private healthcare
Industrial action is stepping up pace across the NHS but what does it mean for the private health sector? In the first of a...
Scanning the opportunities
Ministers have long acknowledged that increasing diagnostics capacity is key to driving down waiting times in the NHS. But despite claims of success and...
Testing for everything
The B2C diagnostics market received a shot in the arm from the Covid-19 pandemic. As demand for PCR and LTF tests continues to subside,...
Customer service: learning the lessons from hospitality
The independent healthcare sector’s reputation for customer service has long fallen short of its reputation for clinical excellence, but as providers look to take...
Looking after workplace health
There is no doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic has increased employer interest in the health of their workforce. Marc Holl, head of primary care...
Harnessing tech to deliver virtual wards
Complex home healthcare is finally becoming a reality following a wave of entrepreneurial innovation, government funding and investor interest fuelled by the Covid-19 pandemic....
NHS Waiting lists: behind the headlines
Waiting lists are likely to be a key factor in the next General Election and there is renewed government focus on reducing them –...
Insights from Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)
In the first feature of a new column by the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN), strategic projects lead Greg Swarbrick looks at the benefits...
Driving the future of corporate healthcare in a post pandemic age
Workplace health and wellbeing has been driven up the corporate agenda in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, long waits for NHS services and...