Healthcare Markets

The leaders of 16 medical professional bodies have complained about private medical insurers increasingly imposing clinical restrictions by employing open referral. The latter, the main proponent of which Bupa, has come under much criticism by hospital consultants, restricts GPs from recommending consultants to patients, instead leaving it for the insurer to recommend consultants it will pay for.

Employers are missing out on healthcare trust options to cover their staff for their healthcare costs – and in the main this is due to ignorance on the part of their advisers.

Cigna UK HealthCare Benefits (UKHB) is rolling out two improvements to its Physio Direct proposition, which offers members a direct route to physiotherapy treatment without seeing a GP, in partnership with Nuffield Health.

Employers are missing out on healthcare trust options to cover their staff for their healthcare costs – and in the main this is due...

The Healthcare Management Trust (HMT), the hospital charity, reported a strong 12 months for the year ending 31 December 2012 with net incoming resources...

Tingy Simoes, who looks after BAAPs examines how cosmetic surgery can be marketed in an ethical wayPublic relations, ironically, has a PR problem. Although there...

The Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) Healthcare, an NHS England funded initiative to develop innovative products and services that address unmet health needs, has...

Turnover for Cambian Healthcare Ltd, the mental health hospital division of the Cambian group, rose by a creditable 9% to £50.5m in calendar 2012...

HMn talks to Fiona Booth, chief executive of the Association of Independent Healthcare Organisations (AIHO)QCan you outline the history to Association of Independent Healthcare...

The authors of the Competition Commission’s (CC) report into the healthcare sector have gaps of understanding so great they have led them reach some...