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The Department of Health (DH) has bowed to pressure from Independent Healthcare Advisory Services to include the independent sector in its healthcare workforce agenda.Healthcare...

The coalition government’s sweeping NHS reforms will lead to short term trauma but long term opportunities for the independent sector, according to a survey...

AXA PPP Healthcare has confirmed it is planning to launch a low-cost PMI product by the end of this year. The insurer described development of...

The NHS is delaying and in some cases stopping a number of elective surgical procedures because of budgetary pressures, leaving the door open for...

Andrew Lansley’s healthcare reforms could be scaled back significantly, leading many observers to envisage an ‘Armageddon’ scenario in which the independent sector becomes the...

The NHS is delaying and in some cases stopping a number of elective surgical procedures because of budgetary pressures, leaving the door open for the independent sector to step in.

Andrew Lansley’s healthcare reforms could be scaled back significantly, leading many observers to envisage an Armageddon’ scenario in which the independent sector becomes the sacrificial lamb used to appease Liberal Democrats and to smooth a heavily amended Health and Social Care Bill through parliament.

Waiting times for hospital treatment have reached their highest level for three years as the NHS spending squeeze begins to bite, according to a...

The independent sector could get the chance to bid for the running of two hospitals after the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) and Trafford...

Expatriate health insurer Bupa International has created an online ‘expert medical opinion’ service. The new service, provided by Advance Medical, gives Bupa International customers access...