Bupa seeks price cut from hospital groups

Bupa is planning to drive down the fees charged by some hospital groups in the wake of the Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) conclusions...

Bid costs hit profit at TDL

High bid costs and last minute procurement cancellations have hit profits at The Doctors Laboratory (TDL). The company, which provides clinical pathology to private and...

Impellam appointment

Impellam has announced that group finance director Andrew Burchall is set to leave the company to pursue other career and personal opportunities.Mr Burchall has...

Horder Centre consortium wins £210m contract

The Horder Centre, along with three consortium partner providers, has snapped up a £210m musculoskeletal (MSK) contract in Sussex.Sussex Musculoskeletal Partnership, which also includes...

Cromwell reports post-tax losses

Bupa-owned Medical Services International (MSI), which operates London’s Cromwell Hospital, has reported a 10% dip in operating profit to £1.4m despite a 12% surge...

Paul Ramsay

Paul Ramsay, chairman, founder and major shareholder of Ramsay Health Care, passed away in his home town in Australia after recently suffering a heart...

Questions remain over HSCIC security

The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) admitted four data breaches following a Freedom of Information request by medConfidential last month.The admission came...

Ramsay UK results

Ramsay UK has reported a small increase in turnover for the year ended 30 June 2013 against what it describes as a ‘challenging trading...

Capsticks expands competition team

Healthcare law specialist, Capsticks, has bolstered its competition team by recruiting Noel Watson-Doig from the BBC’s legal department were he led its competition and...

Kent Institute opens for business

Kent Institute of Medicine & Surgery (KIMS) has opened its doors to patients, six years after the ambitious project was first announced.The brainchild of...