Flexible benefits could replace comprehensive PMI

New research from Jelf Employee Benefits suggests employers are looking to replace comprehensive health benefits with flexible options more akin to mixed employer/employee-funded defined...

Virgin secures £64m children’s services contract

Virgin Care has been awarded a five-year contract worth £64m to provide community child health services in Wiltshire.

New insurer buying venture set to disrupt PMI market

PMI providers Aviva Health and VitalityHealth have formed a joint venture company to procure hospital services in a bid to bring down prices for...

Cleveland Clinic acquires central London site

Major US hospital provider, the Cleveland Clinic has taken out a long term lease on a 198,000sqft building in London’s Grosvenor Place in a...

Care UK invests £1.4m in new operating theatre

Work has begun on a new operating theatre at Care UK’s Barlborough NHS Treatment Centre near Chesterfield as part of a £1.4m investment to...

Hospital relaunches after £10m investment

St Joseph’s Hospital in Newport, South Wales has re-launched following a £10m investment programme to upgrade facilities and extend its service offering.The relaunch comes...

Circle partners with Advanced Oncotherapy to developed proton beam therapy centre

Competition looks set to intensify in the emerging proton beam therapy market after Circle Health announced it had signed a joint venture with Advanced...

DH announces caps on agency staff fees

Caps on the hourly rate NHS trusts can pay agency staff will be introduced later this month as part of the Health Secretary’s bid...

IMHSA calls on NHS England to step in over block contracts

The Independent Mental Health Services Alliance (IMHSA) is urging NHS England to phase out block contracts in mental health after producing new evidence that...

Public prepared to pay for some health services

There is growing acceptance amongst the British public that the NHS cannot cover all of the population’s healthcare needs, recent findings from Simplyhealth’s Everyday...