Green shoots emerging in self-pay market

Early signs that the self-pay market could be recovering emerged this month after BMI Healthcare and Nuffield Health both reported a small return to...

NHS Confederation chief resigns

Steve Barnett has resigned as chief executive of the NHS Confederation.Mr Barnett who was acting chief executive of the Confederation for ten months prior...

GPs lack time to make accurate diagnosis

GPs are only getting half the time they need to see patients, making it difficult for them to make accurate diagnosis, according to new...

NHS temporary placements boost Prestige

Strong growth in the NHS temporary staffing sector has contributed to a 33.4% surge in operating profit for the year ended 31 December 2009...

Lansley London shake-up leads Sykes to step down

Health secretary Andrew Lansley has called a halt to NHS London’s reconfiguration of services, first proposed by Lord Ara Darzi in his 2006 review,...

Change we can believe in?

The Conservative and the Liberal Democrat coalition has released a ‘programme for government’ outlining plans for the healthcare sector which include a ‘much greater...

Private equity banking on healthcare

Healthcare has been ranked first in a list of sectors that private equity firms believe will witness the most activity over the next year,...

Gary Belfield quits DH

The Department of Health (DH) has confirmed that director of commissioning Gary Belfield is leaving to take up a post outside the DH.According to...

UKMR appoints head of clinical services

Independent sector ambulance service provider UK Medical Response (UKMR) has appointed Melissa Wade as head of clinical services.Ms Wade, who joins the company from...

Nuffield to buy out consultant partners

The future of joint venture partnerships between consultants and independent sector hospital providers has been called into question after Nuffield Health confirmed that it...