Raphael takes new nurse

Newark based Raphael Healthcare, the provider of mental health services for women, has strengthened the team at its Farndon Unit with the appointment of...

Care UK acquires eating disorder firm

Care UK has completed the acquisition of the Rhodes Farm Clinic, which specialises in the treatment of children and adolescents suffering from anorexia, bulimia...

Optegra moves in on German ophthalmology market

Specialist eye surgery provider Optegra has taken its first steps overseas after acquiring German ophthalmic outfit Augentis.Optegra, which is backed by the balance sheet...

New provider looks to penetrate international PMI market

A new company has entered into the growing international PMI market with a range of products aimed at both the expats and the local...

Cambian snaps up Pindar Oaks

The newly enlarged Cambian Group is continuing to expand after acquiring Pindar Oaks Hospital from Voyage Healthcare for an undisclosed sum.Cambian, which last year...

Charity takes back The New Victoria

The Victoria Foundation has seen off stiff competition to buy The New Victoria Hospital, the former charitable hospital it sold to Irish investors almost...

Intermediaries call for more transparency in network arrangements

PMI subscribers should be given the chance to ‘opt out’ of ‘treatment networks’ used by insurers to direct patients to particular consultants and hospitals...

PCTs ignore competition rules as they try to rein in costs

Anti-competitive behaviour remains rife in the NHS despite successive government initiatives to offer patients choice and develop plurality of provision.Interim findings from the Competition...

Monitor: independent sector could be at an ‘advantage’ under reforms

Figures from the Department of Health indicating that the NHS will hold an advantage over the independent sector under the coalition’s NHS reforms have...

DH ready to wave goodbye to Darzi

Equitable access centres could be scrapped once GP consortia take over commissioning, the Department of Health has said.In a letter to primary care trusts,...