Bupa pays customers £125m in premium rebates

Health insurer Bupa said today that it will pay its PMI customers £125m in premium rebates following disruption of private treatment during the Covid-19...

OUH explores partnership options to grow private patient services

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) is exploring partnership options with one or more private hospital operators to help develop its private patient...

King Edward VII’s Hospital launches robotic surgery service

King Edward VII’s Hospital in central London has launched a new colorectal robotics surgery service. The hospital’s Precision Surgery Group, which is led by four of...

Priory moves into digital with new partnership

The Priory Group has partnered with not-for-profit digital mental health app My Possible Self. The mental health provider said the move represented a ‘significant digital...

Dentistry market ‘remarkably resilient’ as transactions bounce back

Predictions of a crash in the price of dental practices have proved to be ‘wide of the mark’, with transactions picking up in the...

White paper calls for use of independent sector to be embedded in new NHS...

The Covid-19 pandemic combined with major NHS reforms means the UK health and social care system is it crossroads and should seize the opportunity...

Push Doctor partners with healthcare recruitment specialist

Healthcare staffing specialist Patchwork Health has teamed up with digital healthcare provider Push Doctor to help fill vacant virtual consultation shifts. Under the deal, GP...

CQC calls for improvements at Priory Group sites

A mental health hospital operated by The Priory Group has been placed in special measures following an inspection by the CQC. The regulator said it...

Mental health provider fined over patient death after CQC prosecutes

A charitable service for people with eating disorders and mental health conditions has been fined over £60,000 for failing to provide safe care and...

PHIN enters into academic partnership with LSE

The Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) has entered into a new research partnership with the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) to...