Hunters in UK expansion

Hunters Moor Neurorehabilitation is planning to open nine specialist treatment centres across the UK. The firm, which is backed by capital from United Medical Enterprises...

Allied strengthens medical governance team

In a move which could mean that the largest UK homecare provider is looking to increase its offerings to people with more complex needs,...

CQC and HMIP call for prison improvements

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) have called for improvements in healthcare provision in the prison system after...

GMC: doctors must play greater role

The General Medical Council (GMC) has recommended that GPs play a much greater role in end of life care in a new publication.The new...

AXA PPP healthcare appointment

AXA PPP healthcare has appointed Richard Turner as strategy director.Joining AXA PPP’s management committee and reporting to chief executive Keith Gibbs, Mr Turner will...

Private providers remain on margins of NHS choice

NHS patients remain largely unaware that they can be treated in private hospitals despite significant increases in patient choice activity being reported by almost...

GHG acquires Abbey and 42% stake in Transform

Well over a year after being put up for sale by its private equity owner Cognetas, Covenant Healthcare’s Abbey Hospitals portfolio has finally been...

Bosch to capitalise on growing telehealth market

Bosch Healthcare has outlined plans to expand rapidly into the UK telehealth and telecare markets and has inked a number of contracts to that...

Healthcare firms turn their backs on stock market

Private equity looks set to continue its dominance of the independent healthcare market following news that Priory Group and General Healthcare Group (GHG) have...

MSI reports lacklustre results

Bupa-owned Medical Services International (MSI), which operates London’s Cromwell Hospital, has recorded a profit after tax of £1.6m for the year ended December 2009,...