HCA Healthcare UK doubles Prestatyn call centre size

The UK’s largest provider of privately funded healthcare, HCA Healthcare UK, has ‘doubled its office space’ at Prestatyn based call centre in Wales, taking...

Preparing for the new data regulations

With GDPR now less than six months away, AIHO has developed a new guide to help ensure its members understand the changes to existing...

New report calls for more standardised approach to safety data

Research carried out by international law firm DAC Beachcroft into the use of patient safety data by Boards in the health and care sectors...

HM meets… Natalie Douglas

Complex home healthcare offers huge benefits for patients and potentially significant savings for payors yet it was absent from the NHS Five Year Forward...

Primary Health Properties acquires healthcare facility in Ireland

Primary Health Properties, the UK's leading investor in modern primary healthcare facilities, says that its Irish investment vehicle, Primary Health Properties ICAV, will acquire...

The new face of urgent care

A new model for more integrated urgent care services is offering the opportunity for the independent sector to work in partnership for service delivery. ...

NHS on trial

A judicial review brought by an anti-privatisation campaign group is questioning the payment mechanisms of ACO contracts For those organisations working in the NHS, in...

Baywater Healthcare acquired by French medical group

French medical company Bastide Group has agreed to acquire UK-based Baywater Healthcare from Duke Street for an undisclosed sum. Established in 2013 after Duke Street...

Cigna appoints senior sales director for expansion in France

Health Insurer Cigna has appointed Thien Brechon as senior sales director France, where she will work to develop the organisation’s expanding health insurance services...

Acadia says Priory not for sale but offers would be ‘entertained’

Acadia has indicated that it would entertain offers for the Priory Group after the UK business reported results ‘significantly below expectations’. The US healthcare giant...