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Bupa acquires 49% of Highway to Health
Bupa has announced that it has acquired 49% of Highway to Health Inc, a US-based specialist health insurance and services company.The purchase was completed...
Serco partners social enterprise to bid for community contracts
Serco has signed a deal with employee-owned social enterprise Bromley Healthcare to bid for new community healthcare contracts.Under the deal, Bromley Healthcare will initially...
Skilled operations could drive foreign investment
Foreign investment in the UK could be set to grow as the Competition Commission’s provisional remedies for the private healthcare sector mean nine hospitals...
PHIN is favourite to take on information role
The Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) has emerged as the top contender for the new information organisation proposed by the Competition Commission in its...
Independent providers stay in the running for £800m contract
Cambridge and Peterborough CCG has confirmed that three independent sector healthcare providers are bidding for its flagship Integrated Older People’s Pathway and Adult Community...
Uncertainty likely to continue as two groups vow to fight on
The sale of two HCA and seven BMI hospitals is intended to stimulate competition in the market.
However, with both groups vowing to fight divestment...
Restrictions on PPU partnerships likely to have limited impact
One of the five provisional remedies put forward by the Competition Commission to stimulate competition in the private hospital market is closer scrutiny of...
Divestment: a coup for the big insurers?
Tensions between the two main insurers and the major hospital groups stretch back decades but none have been more strained than the fragile relations...
Endometriosis centre gains national accreditation
King Edward VII Hospital’s endometriosis centre has been accredited by the British Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy (BSGE), making it the first nationally accredited endometriosis...
Independent Sector Complaints Adjudication Service (ISCAS); highlights from the year Annual Report 2013
This is the 13th year of ISCAS, originally formed in response to a report by the Health Select Committee, and developed on best practice...
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