New treatment for liver cancer patients

BMI The Alexandra Hospital in Cheshire is to provide a new, non-surgical treatment for liver cancer. The Drug-Eluting Beads delivering Irinotecan (DEBIRI) treatment is...

GPs criticse NHS hospital care

Those in support of GP commissioning received a boost from a survey of GPs damming care in their local hospitals.Pulse magazine surveyed just 500...

£65bn funding for NHS clinical commissioning groups

Doctors, nurses and other health professionals could in the future control almost £65 billion of NHS funding, Andrew Lansley, health secretary has announced.In addition,...

Loss for General Medical Clinics

General Medical Clinics, provider of primary medical care in London, in its half yearly results for the six month period ended 30 November 2011,...

The Future for Primary Care Premises

For many primary care providers, the landlord of their surgery is their local primary care trust (PCT). When PCTs cease to exist in April 2013...

Private/NHS competition efficiency failings

Competition between NHS hospitals improves their efficiency and can save significant amounts of money. But allowing NHS hospitals to compete against private providers has not...

George Eliot considers private partnership

The George Eliot Hospital (GEH) is considering a private partnership similar to Hinchingbrooke Hospital’s relationship with Circle.The hospital, in Nuneaton, is working with the...

NHS reports increase in weight-loss surgery

The number of hospital procedures for weight-loss stomach surgery rose to 8,087 in 2010/11 – 12 per cent higher than in 2009/10 when there...

Circle Holdings upbeat but seeks fundsing for new builds

Circle Holdings plc, the vehicle for financial institutions investing in healthcare enterprise Circle, in a trading statement ahead of it results for the year...

BAAPS warns on unscrupulous clinics

The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) has hit out at clinics putting pressure on PIP patients to buy further surgery when seeking...