CQC sparks leadership concerns about The Huntercombe Group

The Huntercombe Group has been told by the CQC that it must improve corporate governance across its child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS)...

Further acquisitions drive Elysium expansion

Elysium Healthcare has continued its expansion with the acquisition of three sites from St George Healthcare Group for an undisclosed sum, taking its portfolio...

Revitalising the sector with outcomes analytics

Regulation is pushing the independent healthcare sector to collect and publish more data on outcomes than ever before but the use of outcomes data...

Increase in patients and complexity boosts King Edward VII

King Edward VII Sister Agnes Hospital in central London has reported EBITDA of £352,000 for the year ended 31 March 2017 – its best...

Netcare says long-term challenges remain as BMI profits plummet

Netcare said today that the UK private healthcare market could remain ‘challenging’ even in the long term as it announced that BMI Healthcare had...

St Andrew’s appoints executive medical director

Dr Sanjith Kamath (pictured) has been appointed executive medical director of St Andrew’s Healthcare, following the retirement of Alice Parshall as chief medical officer. Kamath...

NHS spending £1.46bn a year on temporary nurses

The NHS is spending £1.46bn a year on temporary nurses amid staffing shortages, a study by The Open University has found. Based on freedom of...

Vocare renews £1.2m contract with NHS

Vocare Limited, a subsidiary of UK out-of-hospital services provider Totally plc, has renewed a contract worth £1.2m a year with Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation...

Dampened NHS demand impacts sales at Unilabs

Pathology and cancer diagnostics specialist Unilabs has said dampened demand from the NHS for pathology services led to lower than anticipated sales growth in...

Six Physio gets £1.5m loan

Six Physio Limited, a London-based physio clinic chain, has secured a £1.5m debt facility from Santander UK. The company says it will use the five-year...