Spire invests £13m in cancer care centre

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 picks up remaining Castlebeck homes

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 Buys Trinity Medical Centres

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

Baaps bares its teeth

Incentives, group deals and other inducements for plastic surgery should be banned according to the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (Baaps).The organisation called...

Rise in mental health complaints to NHS

Data released by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has revealed that written complaints specifically relating to mental health services have shot...

Cigna enhances physio service

Cigna UK HealthCare Benefits (UKHB) is rolling out two improvements to its Physio Direct proposition, which offers members a direct route to physiotherapy treatment...

Medical revalidation, a progress report by Sally Taber

Sir Keith Pearson, chair of the Revalidation Implementation Advisery Board, has a strong message for providers’ management boards throughout the UK – ‘medical revalidation...

Threat to repeal NHS markets

Labour has threatened to repeal pro-market elements of the NHS in the first Queen’s Speech if Labour is voted into power at the next...

Bupa launches breast cancer network

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...

Care comes to patient in the future hospital

A new report from the Future Hospital Commission recommends that, in future, care should come to the acutely ill patient, rather than the patient...