DH urged to get real about budgets

The NHS Confederation has told the Department of Health (DH) that it must be realistic about the changes that personal health budgets will make...

AXA extends wellbeing service

AXA PPP Healthcare has enhanced its workplace wellbeing service for larger employers with the introduction of a new fee model which offers a ‘significant’...

IS Providers participate in training

Care UK has hit back at suggestions that independent sector providers are not bearing their fair share of the costs of training clinical staff.Speaking...

UK bosses pledge to improve staff wellbeing

The results of Aviva’s annual Health of the Workplace report, published this month, have revealed that a large proportion of business leaders plan to...

OFT warned of dangers of over-simplifying private healthcare

The chief executive of the Private Hospitals Alliance Matt James has warned that the OFT report into competition in the private healthcare sector must...

Engage Mutual enters corporate cash plan market

Engage Mutual has entered the corporate cash plan market following its acquisition of National Friendly’s sales team along with ongoing rights to the ‘One...

Spire signs deal with Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital

Spire Healthcare has signed a two-year deal to develop private patient services at The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) in North London.Under the contract,...

Priory opens therapy clinic The Priory Group has opened a psychological assessment and therapy...

Marco Bannerman, hospital director at the Priory Hospital Glasgow said: ‘We have received an increasing number of enquiries from the North of Scotland and...

Another good year for Tetbury

Gloucestershire-based Tetbury Hospital has achieved a ‘remarkable turnaround’, according to its chairman, after it posted a 13% increase in net surplus for the year...

Lords support calls for specialist commissioning body

A survey of House of Lords members commissioned by Care Principles has found overwhelming support for the creation of a specialist body to commission...