Bourn Hall China expands

Bourn Hall China has signed an agreement to build a new fertility clinic in Zhoushan as part of a new collaboration with Zhoushan Maternal...

GP app deal

Digital healthcare provider and virtual GP app Doctor Care Anywhere has entered into a new partnership with Legal & General to pilot the service...

PHIN to delay publication of consultant-level performance measures

The private healthcare information body PHIN said today that it would delay the publication of consultant level performance measures until April 2018 due to...

Independent sector’s role in STPs is to ‘challenge thinking’

The independent sector's role in the sustainability and transformation plan (STP) process of rebuilding local health and care systems is one of ‘challenging thinking’,...

InHealth acquires Care UK CATS service

Diagnostics provider InHealth Group has expanded its presence in the community diagnostics market following the acquisition of Care UK’s community-based CATS and diagnostics services...

Demand for PMI moves up in 2015 as corporates extend schemes

Demand for UK private medical cover moved up in 2015, bucking the static trend of recent years. Latest figures reveal that the number of private...

Proton Partners lease deal

Proton Partners International has signed a ten-year lease to establish a research centre at the Life Sciences Accelerator building in Liverpool, which is due...

PMI sales could suffer after hike in IPT

The PMI industry was dealt another blow in this year’s Autumn Statement after chancellor Phillip Hammond announced that insurance premium tax (IPT) would increase...

Independent sector is a ‘willing partner’

The Independent Mental Health Services Alliance (IMHSA) has said that the independent sector is a ‘willing partner’ to take forward new recommendations to improve...

DH to sell a majority stake in NHS Professionals

The Department of Health (DH)has announced plans to sell a majority shareholding in its in-house recruitment agency NHS Professionals. Over the last year, the government...