Investment in global healthcare set to reach $200bn
Some $200bn looks set to be invested in the global healthcare infrastructure sector over the next five years, according to research.
Around 100 institutional investors...
Spire appoints group clinical director
Spire Healthcare has promoted Alison Dickinson (pictured) to the position of group clinical director.
Dickinson, previously chief nursing officer at Spire, will be overseeing quality...
AXA launches new cover for companies in Saudi Arabia
AXA has launched international insurance policies for companies based in Saudi Arabia.
The new ‘Prestige’ and ‘Prestige Plus’ plans will be available to locally-based businesses...
Independent sector ‘most excluded’ from local integrated care systems
Independent and voluntary sector providers are the least likely to be involved in local integrated health and care systems (ICSs), according to research by...
Labour calls for inquiry into Hancock interview
The Labour party has called for an inquiry after Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock was accused of endorsing Babylon Health services in...
London PPUs buck the downward trend
The capital’s NHS PPUs are bucking the trend in declining private patient revenues in London.
London’s top ten PPUs increased their combined turnover by 7.1%...
Bupa offers Babylon services to SMEs
Bupa SME customers will be offered Babylon Health’s virtual GP services in the new year, the health insurer has said.
The move follows an expanded...
UK cancer outcomes lagging behind other countries, report finds
A ‘radical re-think’ about cancer care services is needed to improve survival rates in the UK, the Health Foundation has said.
The charity’s report, Unfinished...
HM meets… Nicolas Serandour
Advanced Oncotherapy is still testing its Linac Image Guided Hadron Therapy, but work is underway at its £10m Harley Street site and the new...
AMG grows on the back of increasing PET-CT demand
Diagnostics and imaging firm Alliance Medical Group (AMG) has posted an 8.4% jump in revenue to £283m for the year ended 30 September 2018...