Cambs and Peterborough adult services contract delayed

It is understood that there has been a delay in the awarding of the contract to provide adults and older people’s services in Cambridgeshire...

GPs are telling patients to go private

GPs are advocating private treatment to patients due to the limitations of clinical commissioning group (CCGs), according to Spire Healthcare. 70% of GPS tell...

BMI responds to Alvernia concerns

CQC concerns over BMI Alvernia, BMI Healthcare’s acute independent hospital in central Guildford, caused a stir in the press last month after the hospital...

InHealth steady growth continues

InHealth Group Limited, the healthcare services (primarily diagnostics and screening) company which works predominantly within the NHS but also within the private sector, has...

NHS 111 runs into problems

The new NHS non-emergency telephone line, NHS 111 hit a bump in the road last month as one of the providers, NHS Direct, admitted...

Public uncertainty around NHS changes

Benenden Health has gauged opinion around the changes to the NHS brought about by the introduction of the Health and Social Care Act, which...

Priory Group grows profits on flat turnover

Recently posted results for Priory Group No.3 plc show that turnover across all of the group’s four divisions (healthcare, education, specialist services and older...

Monitor assesses GP services

Monitor is to examine the commissioning and provision of GP services in England to see if there are barriers preventing patients from securing access...

PMI offers chinks of light

Demand for health cover was solid in 2012 as the number of private medical cover policies in the UK (insured and self insured) moved...

Ashley House re-establishes growth

Ashley House posted positive preliminary results for the year ending 30 April 2013 last month which indicate that its move further into the social...