FemTech: An emerging market on course for major expansion
The global market for female-oriented health technology is both consumer-facing and underserved, making it ideally placed for roll-up investments while improving health outcomes. Dr...
Membership-based primary care clinic opens in London
Membership-based private primary care provider (med)24 has announced the opening of its flagship clinic in London’s Paddington on 29 March.
The 7,000sqft facility will be open...
Bupa pays customers £125m in premium rebates
Health insurer Bupa said today that it will pay its PMI customers £125m in premium rebates following disruption of private treatment during the Covid-19...
OUH explores partnership options to grow private patient services
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) is exploring partnership options with one or more private hospital operators to help develop its private patient...
Income dips at St Andrew’s Healthcare
Increased pressure on public spending has continued to dampen revenue at St Andrew’s Healthcare (STAH) as the charitable mental health provider reported a £1m...
King Edward VII’s Hospital launches robotic surgery service
King Edward VII’s Hospital in central London has launched a new colorectal robotics surgery service.
The hospital’s Precision Surgery Group, which is led by four of...
HMuk meets… Ranjan Singh
Digital healthcare is spawning a plethora of product innovation and new service lines, but if one has come into its own over the last...
Practice Plus Group announces first set of results as standalone business
Care UK’s former healthcare division Practice Plus Group has reported ‘good performance’ in 2020 despite operational challenges created by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The company was...
Priory moves into digital with new partnership
The Priory Group has partnered with not-for-profit digital mental health app My Possible Self.
The mental health provider said the move represented a ‘significant digital...
Dentistry market ‘remarkably resilient’ as transactions bounce back
Predictions of a crash in the price of dental practices have proved to be ‘wide of the mark’, with transactions picking up in the...