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...

Leading firms form digital healthcare partnership

Over 20 leading healthcare organisations have come together under a formal partnership designed to grow the digital healthcareLed by D Health, the group, called...

Scottish minister restricts use of private providers

Scottish health boards have been told to scale back the use of private sector providers.Guidance issued last month by Scottish health secretary Alex Neil...

BMI reports upsurge in international patients

BMI Healthcare has seen an upsurge in international patients during this year, the hospital group said today.Figures released by BMI show a 48% increase...

Bupa acquires 49% of Highway to Health

Bupa announced that it has acquired 49% of Highway to Health, Inc, a US-based specialist health insurance and services company.The purchase was completed on...

Horder swoops on day hospital

Horder Healthcare announced today it has bought Seaford Day Hospital, in Sussex with the aim of opening in 2014. The former NHS hospital was purchased...

Health benefits are ‘unsustainable’ say employers

Employers recognise the link between health and wellbeing and employees performance but think the rising cost of providing healthcare benefits will make them unsustainable...

Serco exits loss-making healthcare contracts

Troubled outsourcing firm Serco Group will exit two of its clinical health contracts early after revealing it would lose an estimated £17m across three...

Aspen opens £50,000 HDU

Aspen opened a £50,000 high dependency unit at its Holly House hospital last month.The development will enable the hospital to carry out more complex...