Healthcare Markets

Mental health care providers have questioned the newly drafted standards for low secure mental health facilities for people detained under the Mental Health Act,...

A report on the Care Quality Commission by the National Audit Office (NAO) has identified a number of failings within the organisation.

Whistledawn Ltd, trading as Northerncare reported losses for the financial year ended 31 January 2011 despite sales increasing by 12% to over £24m.The losses...

Castlebeck, the specialist provider of mental healthcare services and learning disabilities (which was revealed in a Panorama programme to have less than satisfactory care...

The Office of Fair Trading finds ‘restricted and distorted’ competition in the private healthcareThe Office of Fair Trading (OFT) announced this month that it...

The Birmingham and District General Practitioner Emergency Room Ltd, report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2011 showed good growth.The out of...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has issued a formal warning to Cygnet Health Care Limited that it must make urgent improvements to standards of care provided at an independent mental health hospital in Blackheath.

Concerns that competition for services within the NHS will be based on cost have been raised by the announcement of the new NHS operating...

The rumour mill is starting up regarding potential buyers for home care provider Healthcare at Home.The word on the street is that Vitruvian Partners,...

Tony Yates has been appointed as the Executive Director at two Birmingham private hospitals. After more than 20 years working in private healthcare, Mr...