Virgin Care cites funding gap as it exits flagship contract

Virgin Care is exiting a flagship contract to provide community services in the West Midlands after talks with commissioners failed to produce a new...
Aviva launches new private medical insurance service

Aviva launches new private medical insurance service

Aviva has launched a new premium private medical insurance service designed to help its corporate clients better control their costs. The insurer said its new...
NHS competitive tendering worth less than 2% of NHS CCG spending

NHS competitive tendering worth less than 2% of NHS CCG spending

New research conducted by the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) has revealed that the NHS competitively tenders contracts worth less than 2% of overall...

PHIN publishes consultants’ fees

Information on the fees charged by consultants working in private practice has been published today by the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN). PHIN began publishing...
Mental health service rated ‘inadequate’ by CQC

Mental health service rated ‘inadequate’ by CQC

Mental health hospital Meadow Lodge in Chudleigh, Devon, has been rated as ‘inadequate’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Inspectors visited the service in February...
Confirmation of funding for Agenda for Change staff is urgently needed says IHPN

Confirmation of funding for Agenda for Change staff is urgently needed says IHPN

The row between NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) over the funding of a pay rise for staff in...

Octopus Healthcare raises more than £58m

Octopus Healthcare has raised £58.8m on the back of growing demand from institutional investors for healthcare real estate. The specialist healthcare real estate investor, which...
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Vitality calls on businesses to help employees engage with health and wellbeing initiatives

Health insurer Vitality is calling on business leaders to help their employees engage with health and wellbeing initiatives after research revealed businesses could save...
Nuffield Health partners with Leicester Real World Evidence Unit

Nuffield Health partners with Leicester Real World Evidence Unit

Nuffield Health has partnered with Leicester Real World Evidence Unit to leverage the latest data analytics to design future health and wellbeing service delivery. The...
NHSE to strengthen patient choice

Choice agenda still stalling after more than a decade

There has been no improvement in public awareness of ‘patient choice’ in more than a decade, despite the legal right to a choice of...