CQC delays introduction of new inspection approach

The CQC has delayed the introduction of its new inspection regime until the end of 2023 to give providers more time to prepare following...

ICBs – the first 100 days

Gerard Hanratty, partner and head of health at Browne Jacobson, looks at the challenges faced by the new integrated care boards as they bed...

A new era for the Electronic Patient Record?

Money has been allocated to deliver on the Department of Health and Social Care’s mandate to have a fully digital health and social care...

Acquisition furthers Spire’s expansion into GP services and occupational health

Spire Healthcare has acquired the Doctors Clinic Group from Oakfield Capital Partners for £12m in a bid to further its strategic expansion into primary...

Challenge and change: The impact on workforce issues 

Over the course of the next three editions of Healthcare Markets, members of international law firm DAC Beachcroft’s health and social care team will...

IHPN annual summit 2022

IHPN’s first in-person Summit since 2019 featured an impressive line-up of speakers at a time when independent healthcare could play a bigger role in...

Elective recovery should focus on choice rather than capacity

NHS system leaders should focus on empowering patients to choose where they receive their treatment rather than simply seek to identify spare capacity in...

ADAPt report recommends routine sharing of data across independent sector and NHS

Data on admitted patient care and outpatients could be shared across the independent sector and the NHS to provide more comprehensive insight into the...

Care Fertility expands internationally with new partnership deals

Nordic Capital-backed Care Fertility has announced partnerships with US-based Reach Fertility and Spanish based IVF-Life. The deal also includes partnership arrangements with Spanish laboratory, Genetic...

Kry appoints commercial and partnerships VP

Pan-European digital healthcare provider Kry has appointed Lukas Didon as commercial & partnerships vice president.   Didon, who holds a PhD in medicine from the Karolinska...