Healthcare Markets

Alpha Hospital Sheffield was forced to develop its standards of quality and safety last year after a Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection found that...

MedicX Fund Limited, the specialist primary care infrastructue investor in modern purpose-built primary healthcare properties announced in its Interim Management Statement for the period...

Bupa has reinstated most of the 37 BMI hospitals it had removed or was removing from its network of hospitals.Neither party is prepared to...

The Department of Health has given local authorities a £150m New Year present to solve the current bed blocking crisis.At the same time, health...

Alpha Hospitals Ltd, which provides specialist secure psychiatric care for adults and young people, suffered a drop in profit as recorded in its financial...

Axa PPP Healthcare has enhanced both the cancer and heart cover for individual and corporate policyholders. Members diagnosed with a heart condition will now have...

Circle, the private sector company has moved in to take over the Hinchingbrooke Hospital. It will become the first ever non state provider to deliver...

Assura Medical, the healthcare provider offering services such as GP-led walk in and healthcare centres, out of hours services, community diagnostics and management of...

WPA, the private medical insurance provider is to offer moratorium underwriting on its individual policies, Flexible Health essentials, premier and elite.The company will still...

Andrew Lansley, Secretary of State for health, hit out at the health select committee’s report into NHS reform calling it unfair and out of date’. The health select committee report, which was published late last month, laid out some stiff criticism of the planned reforms. The report warned that hospitals would be forced into short term salami-slicing’ as they scrambled to save £20bn by 2015.