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Circle suffered a torrid month after the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) found that the company was not achieving the savings it expected to at...

The board of beleaguered learning disability care provider Castlebeck placed the company in administration on March 5, some 18 months after a gruelling television...

The report into the scandal at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust has recommended that specialist inspectors for hospitals are created by the Care Quality Commission...

The Independent Healthcare Advisory Service (IHAS) welcomes the recent publication from the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) Professional Standards for Cosmetic Surgery. The standards clearly...

Glen Care has opened the next phase in the development of its specialist care service in Anerley, South London.The Claremont Suite at the London...

In their penultimate operational year primary care trusts (PCTs) across England increased their spend on services commissioned from independent healthcare providers by 10.7%. This compared...

The Private Patients’ Forum (PPF) which works to support the private patients’ voice in the sector has been awarded funding for 2013 by three...

The mortality rate among people who are in contact with specialist mental health services is nearly four times (3.6) that of the general population, according to the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC).

Simplyhealth, the health cash plan and insurance provider, has updated its corporate voluntary cash plan proposition, adding new healthcare benefits and an increase to...

The Competition Commission has called on stakeholders in the private healthcare market to submit comments to its investigation into private healthcare. In its most recent...