NHS Property Services and CHP to merge

NHS Property Services (NHS PS), the company set up to look after properties which used to be owned by primary care trusts, and Community...

Medacs income under pressure

Impellam Group, the global staffing solutions firm, expects unadjusted earnings per share to be broadly flat in the first half of the year compared...

Serco slammed by PAC

The Public Accounts Committee has criticised out-of-hours provider Serco for its provision of the out-of-hours GP service in Cornwall.Whistleblowers raised concerns in early 2012,...

Meridian wins NHS contract

Meridian Business Support, the recruitment agency, has been placed on the Government Procurement Services (GPS) framework covering all regions of the UK.Meridian becomes an...

Turnover jump for ID Medical

ID Medical Group, the specialist staff recruitment agency, saw growth for the year ending 31 December 2012 and reported increased turnover and profits.Turnover grew...

Business case – HMN meets sovereign Capital

HMn talks to Dominic Dalli, partner at private equity firm Sovereign Capital, who about how private equity can work with the health care sector...

PHIN to collate patient mortality data

The Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN)) has permission from the Department of Health to collate information about patient mortality between private and NHS hospitals. Working...

Whistleblowing at work, by Sally Taber

The recent events at Morecambe Bay, Winterbourne View and Mid Staffordshire (amongst others), show a recurring theme; people witnessed wrongdoing and tried to speak...

Legally speaking – Care Bill casts a shadow

Kyle Holling, lead partner on Trowers and Hamlins’ health and social care team, explains how the Care Bill could impact on private providersThe Care...

NHS spending protected but by how much?

NHS expenditure from 2015/16 will continue to be protected in real terms. This was revealed in the Government’s recent Spending Review. A joint commissioning plan for...