Healthcare Markets

Practice based commissioning, patient choice and payment by results are forging major growth in the UK diagnostics market, provider Inhealth said as it announced...

The NHS is delaying and in some cases stopping a number of elective surgical procedures because of budgetary pressures, leaving the door open for...

Andrew Lansley’s healthcare reforms could be scaled back significantly, leading many observers to envisage an ‘Armageddon’ scenario in which the independent sector becomes the...

Andrew Lansley’s healthcare reforms could be scaled back significantly, leading many observers to envisage an Armageddon’ scenario in which the independent sector becomes the sacrificial lamb used to appease Liberal Democrats and to smooth a heavily amended Health and Social Care Bill through parliament.

Nestor Healthcare, which was recently acquired by Acromas Holdings’ subsidiary Saga Group for £133m, has released its results for the year ended 31 December 2010.

The NHS is delaying and in some cases stopping a number of elective surgical procedures because of budgetary pressures, leaving the door open for the independent sector to step in.

The independent sector could get the chance to bid for the running of two hospitals after the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) and Trafford...

Insurers may be able to assist employers in dealing with the issue of long term employee absence, a new study from Aviva UK Health...

GPs are experiencing lengthening waiting times and restrictions on the availability of a range of NHS services, encouraging an increase in private referrals, a...

Expatriate health insurer Bupa International has created an online ‘expert medical opinion’ service. The new service, provided by Advance Medical, gives Bupa International customers access...