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The Department of Health (DH) has been accused of failing; to push forward the integration of health and social care by a leading independent provider.

It has been reported nationally that Primary Care Trust (PCT) chiefs were threatened with the sack last month by health secretary, Andrew Lansley, if...

Private hospital groups have reported a growth in the self pay market, despite the economic downturn impacting on private medical insurance.Stephen Collier, chief executive...

Nuffield Health announced today that it is will buy ­BMI Oxford Clinic and relocate it to new facilities at The Manor Hospital, in Headington,...

Patients campaigning charity, The Patients Association has launched the Care Campaign to improve fundamental patient care. Based on the four most frequent concerns received from...

The Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley announced last month that NHS patients would get more choice about who provides their hospital care from April 2012. From...

The GMC has said that official assessments regarding doctors’ professionalism should be considered carefully before being accepted due to the variability of feedback. Research commissioned...

While Circle as a business is still dominated in revenue terms by the ISTC group Nations Healthcare, which it acquired in 2007, its first...

A report by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) has found that many mental health patients feel that they unsafe whilst they are in hospital. The report, Completing the Revolution: Transforming mental health and tackling poverty said that hospitals tend to be untheraputic and dangerous places’, and added: Risk aversion drives much detention and insistence on medication but other psychosocial interventions and meaningful activity are often unavailable for patients who also have to cope with fear of attack from fellow patients.’

The Department of Health (DH) has launched a consultation aimed at developing proposals that will require NHS providers to be more open and admit...