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The leaders of 16 medical professional bodies have complained about private medical insurers increasingly imposing clinical restrictions by employing open referral. The latter, the main proponent of which Bupa, has come under much criticism by hospital consultants, restricts GPs from recommending consultants to patients, instead leaving it for the insurer to recommend consultants it will pay for.

Employers are missing out on healthcare trust options to cover their staff for their healthcare costs – and in the main this is due to ignorance on the part of their advisers.

Cigna UK HealthCare Benefits (UKHB) is rolling out two improvements to its Physio Direct proposition, which offers members a direct route to physiotherapy treatment without seeing a GP, in partnership with Nuffield Health.

Bupa, the private medical insurer, is launching a new breast cancer network, a specialist network of the UK’s leading hospitals and consultants, aimed at providing customers with the very best treatment and care to improve their chances of survival if they are diagnosed with breast cancer.

The authors of the Competition Commission’s (CC) report into the healthcare sector have gaps of understanding so great they have led them reach some...

There is a “depressing” lack of awareness about the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) according to the Law Society of England and Wales. In a submission...

One Medical Property, the healthcare premises developer, and One Medicare, the healthcare services provider owned by One Medical Property, have announced an organisational restructure...

Spire Healthcare has started work on a new £13m cancer care centre in Bristol. The facility will offer a range of services and will largely...

Danshell Adult Healthcare has acquired the remaining estate of Castlebeck from its administrators. The 20 facilities are a mix of care homes for adults with...

Assura Group, the UK Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) and primary care property investor and developer has acquired the entire issued share capital of...