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The Independent Mental Health Services Alliance (IMHSA) has welcomed the publication of the government’s five-year plan for mental health, but said it needs to...

Craegmoor, part of the Priory Group of Companies, has invested over £800,000 in refurbishing and expanding residential services in Wakefield for individuals with Autism.The...

The Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) has confirmed that it will apply to become the information body set out by the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) in its remedies for the private healthcare market.

Bupa and Spire Healthcare Group have reached a long term agreement on price and quality standards in a bid to grow private customer volumes.The...

The market for privately funded healthcare could grow by as much as £2bn by 2025 if insurers, hospitals and clinicians can come together to...

Dental group IDH has announced it is rebranding as My Dentist as part of a bid to become a more consumer-focused retail company.Chief executive...

A new fertility service aimed at encouraging women and men to prioritise awareness of their fertility has been launched by Harley Street-based Fertile Matters.Fertility...

Fewer than one in ten NHS patients treated under the Department of Health’s summer waiting list initiative were seen in independent hospitals despite spare...

Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham has said his controversial NHS first’ policy will not preclude the involvement of independent healthcare providers in the NHS. On the contrary, Mr Burnham insisted that making NHS organisations preferred provider’ for new services and repealing Section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 would give NHS providers and commissioners the freedom to work with the independent sector. In an interview with Health Service Journal, he said: There is going to be change, but the NHS will get the first chance to change. You don’t immediately go to an open competition, [the NHS] gets the chance to embrace the model…But [if commissioners judge the] change isn’t acceptable or not embraced fully, then [we] say: We’ve given you first chance to change but it’s not worked. We now need to open up to different ways of doing things.’

Confidence has returned to the healthcare sector over the last year, with the number of investments steadily rising to make 2014 something of a...