Healthcare Markets

PruHealth has reported a fall in underlying profit despite a healthy increase in net earned premiums for the year ended 30 June 2014.In order...

Health and social care law firm Hempsons is bolstering its Harrogate team with three new lawyers.Solicitor Jon Gribit joins Hempsons from Nabarroo LLP, where...

A new fertility service aimed at encouraging women and men to prioritise awareness of their fertility has been launched by Harley Street-based Fertile Matters.Fertility...

Primary care property investor Primary Health Properties has reported a strong pipeline of new developments, rental growth of 1.9% and a total rent roll...

The Private Health Information Network (PHIN) has appointed Sam Meikle as director of operations to improve the pace of delivering its information agenda.The organisation...

Fewer than one in ten NHS patients treated under the Department of Health’s summer waiting list initiative were seen in independent hospitals despite spare...

Integrated Pathology Partnerships (iPP), the joint venture company set up by Labco and Sodexo in 2010 to provide cost effective pathology services to the...

Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham has said his controversial NHS first’ policy will not preclude the involvement of independent healthcare providers in the NHS. On the contrary, Mr Burnham insisted that making NHS organisations preferred provider’ for new services and repealing Section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 would give NHS providers and commissioners the freedom to work with the independent sector. In an interview with Health Service Journal, he said: There is going to be change, but the NHS will get the first chance to change. You don’t immediately go to an open competition, [the NHS] gets the chance to embrace the model…But [if commissioners judge the] change isn’t acceptable or not embraced fully, then [we] say: We’ve given you first chance to change but it’s not worked. We now need to open up to different ways of doing things.’

Healthcare property developer Assura Group Ltd has raised gross proceeds of £180.2m in its Share Issue.The company said it had issued 414.3 million new...

Confidence has returned to the healthcare sector over the last year, with the number of investments steadily rising to make 2014 something of a...