Healthcare Markets

The Health Select Committee has announced plans to widen its annual public expenditure enquiry to look into the extent of private and voluntary sector involvement in the NHS and social care and examine the impact of competition.

Increasing specialism and higher occupancy rates have continued to ramp up revenues at charitable mental health provider St Andrew’s Healthcare, which reported a 7.3% rise in income from charitable activities to £187.5m for the year ended 31 March 2014.

The Independent Mental Health Services Alliance (IMHSA) has welcomed the chief medical officer’s (CMO) report on priorities for mental health, including the need to address the existing treatment gap and support efforts to achieve parity of esteem between mental and physical health.

The private healthcare sector is facing many of the same challenges as the NHS but in some cases is managing them less effectively, according...

Aviva is now offering its rehabilitation service for musculoskeletal conditions, BacktoBetter, as standard on Solutions PMI plans for small and medium sized corporate clients.BacktoBetter...

Spire Bushey Hospital has teamed up with GeneHealth UK to offer next generation sequencing genetic testing to enable patients to find out their risk...

Engage Mutual is poised to form one of the largest mutual insurers in the UK after its Board formally recommended a merger with Family...

Mutual healthcare society Benenden Health has published the results of its first ever large-scale study monitoring the health and wellbeing of the UK population.The...

AXA PPP International has expanded its presence in Africa with a new healthcare plan for SMEs and individuals based in Kenya and Tanzania.The ‘Pan...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has announced the first eight independent sector hospitals that will be inspected under its new ratings regime.The new approach...