Income up at Tetbury

Investment in new facilities paid dividends for Gloucestershire-based Tetbury Hospital Trust after it reported a 21% increase in total income to £1.3m for the...

HCL success story unravels

Kate Bleasdale has resigned as a director of the company she founded in 2003 just days after the appointment of a new chairman.Investors at...

Demand ‘stabilises’ at Maxxima

Maxxima Ltd, the health and social care recruitment firm, has posted a 9% increase in turnover to £33.4m for the year ended 31 August...

Last word… Ravender Sembhy talks to Dr Alison Rose-Quirie, managing director for Mental Health...

Mental health is back in the spotlight after the coalition government recently launched a new strategy, pledging to place the importance of mental health...

Monitoring compliance: competition law insights into the Health & Social Care Bill

Nicole Kar, Felicity Deane and Marcus Blacker of law firm Linklaters LLP explore the challenges and implications of Monitor’s role as licensing and competition...

Intermediaries call for more transparency in network arrangements

PMI subscribers should be given the chance to ‘opt out’ of ‘treatment networks’ used by insurers to direct patients to particular consultants and hospitals...

Private equity swoops for dentistry firm

Private equity major The Carlyle Group, in partnership with Palamon Capital Partners, has struck an agreement to acquire Integrated Dental Holdings (IDH) from Bank...

Optegra moves in on German ophthalmology market

Specialist eye surgery provider Optegra has taken its first steps overseas after acquiring German ophthalmic outfit Augentis.Optegra, which is backed by the balance sheet...

Hays moves back into profit

Specialist staffing provider Hays Healthcare has moved back into the black thanks to ‘improved trading conditions within the healthcare sector’.The company, which provides locum...

PCTs ignore competition rules as they try to rein in costs

Anti-competitive behaviour remains rife in the NHS despite successive government initiatives to offer patients choice and develop plurality of provision.Interim findings from the Competition...