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Christie haematology transplant unit opens
The Christie Clinic, the private patient cancer clinic, has opened a haematology transplant unit claiming to be the the first private hospital outside London...
ISCAS stuck on non-member complaints
The Independent Sector Complaints and Adjudication Service (ISCAS), the complaints management framework in the independent healthcare sector, has revealed in its annual report for...
BMI Healthcare ad is judged misleading
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint over a BMI Healthcare advert which read ‘BMI Healthcare - the consultants' choice’.The complainant had...
Mentors gathered to help health start-ups
Healthcare entrepreneurs in London are being offered assistance by a start-up scheme launched by Healthbox, the business accelerator focused exclusively on supporting innovation and...
Bupa defends open referrals
Bupa has hailed its controversial open referral system as a success and claimed last month that eight out of ten renewing clients are electing...
Virgin Care drops its GP Cos partnerships
Virgin Care announced last month that it is to abandon is joint venture management model of working with GPs through 50/50 partnerships (GP Cos)...
Circle investors are advised to hold, but more funds are needed
Circle has received cautious approval from investment house Investec.
Sebastien Jantet, analyst at Investec, has professed Circle’s interim results broadly in-line in with Investec’s expectations...
Portland Hospital for Women gets scanner
The Portland Hospital for Women and Children has commissioned a new 128 slice low dose CT scanner.The new scanner cost over £1 million to...
Care is lacking for weight-loss surgery patients
Sally Taber examines the issues surrounding bariatric surgery and patient safetyA new report on the process of care for patients who have undergone bariatric...
Labour urged to give mutuals their voice
The Labour party’s planned health service policy review needs to consider the contribution mutual companies can make to the future of UK healthcare, according...
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