Mental health patients use NHS more

Mental health service users have double the rate of hospital attendances compared to the general population – across A&E, inpatients and outpatient services, according...

Public uncertainty around NHS changes

Benenden Health has gauged opinion around the changes to the NHS brought about by the introduction of the Health and Social Care Act, which...

Strategic change at Four Seasons

Four Seasons Health Care, the care homes provider, is to restructure its organisation to focus on developing its business in three strategic areas: dementia...

PMI offers chinks of light

Demand for health cover was solid in 2012 as the number of private medical cover policies in the UK (insured and self insured) moved...

Nicholson challenge grows by another £30bn

NHS England chief executive Sir David Nicholson, who is due to retire next March, has ‘upped the ante’ in a call for urgent action...

PMI providers should pool flex risk benefit

Jelf Employee Benefits, the health insurance intermediary has said more small to medium sized businesses and their employees could be introduced to a wider...

NHS Property Services and CHP to merge

NHS Property Services (NHS PS), the company set up to look after properties which used to be owned by primary care trusts, and Community...

Meridian wins NHS contract

Meridian Business Support, the recruitment agency, has been placed on the Government Procurement Services (GPS) framework covering all regions of the UK.Meridian becomes an...

PHIN to collate patient mortality data

The Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN)) has permission from the Department of Health to collate information about patient mortality between private and NHS hospitals. Working...

NHS spending protected but by how much?

NHS expenditure from 2015/16 will continue to be protected in real terms. This was revealed in the Government’s recent Spending Review. A joint commissioning plan for...