Simplyhealth updates voluntary cash plan

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

CC says insurer power is not an issue

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...

Palatine PE invests in Chase Templeton

Palatine Private Equity has completed an investment in private medical insurance (PMI) specialist intermediaries Chase Templeton Group.Chase Templeton was founded in 2002 by Kevin...

Nuffield to build replacement hospital in Cambridge

Nuffield Health has been given planning permission to build a small new state of the art hospital on its Nuffield site in Trumpington Road...

Obesity admissions triple in five years

Hospital admissions due to obesity have tripled over the past five years according to statistics released by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.Hospitals...

Circle still buoyant despite PAC criticism

Circle issued a trading update last month which announced that it expected consolidated operating profit and revenue before exceptional items for the year ended...

BMI’s international self-pay clients increase

Despite uncertainty in the global economic market, new figures revealed today by BMI Healthcare, the UK’s largest provider of independent healthcare, show that its hospitals are continuing to attract international patients to the UK. The international healthcare market is currently worth 100 billion dollars and this is set to increase to 130 billion in 2015, according to consultants KPMG.

Bridgepoint could be in line to buy Oasis

Bridgepoint, the buyout firm, is rumoured to be in line to take over Oasis Healthcare, Britain's second-largest private dentistry provider in a deal likely...

Moonray invests in ‘new breed’ telehealth

Moonray Healthcare, the investment company specialising in healthcare and medical sciences, has made a ‘substantial investment’ in Wiltshire Medical Services (WMS), a primary care...

SE London Doctors Co-Op records profit

The South-East London Doctors Co-operative (SELDOC), the primary medical care services out-of-hours provider operating in Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham, reported turnover of £3.9m for...