Losses deepen at Aviva Occupational Health

Aviva Occupational Health, formerly Norwich Union Occupational Health, has posted a 17% fall in income to £8.2m for the year ended 31 December 2008.The...

Security breach sees confidential data flood black market abroad

Security issues surrounding the offshore outsourcing of confidential data have been brought to the fore, following the recent ITV Tonight documentary, Health Records For...

AXA PPP Healthcare launches dedicated cancer service

AXA PPP Healthcare has launches a dedicated cancer service for subscribers. The service, which is being offered free of charge for all the insurer’s UK...

Darzi centres failing to attract patients

Some of the GP centres procured until the Equitable Access programme are reported to be looking to renegotiate contracts because they are failing to...

CancerPartnersUK opens first centre in Portsmouth

CancerPartnersUK has opened its first Image Guided Radiotherapy Centre in Portsmouth 17 months after announcing its partnership with Spire Healthcare.The Centre is the first...

Fall in income at Tetbury Hospital Trust

Tetbury Hospital Trust Ltd, the charitable hospital provider based in Gloucestershire, has reported a 5% drop in incoming resources to £1.1m for the year...

Bpas reserves deteriorate

Charitable pregnancy and sexual health services provider British Pregnancy Advisory Services (Bpas) has reported a 3% increase in turnover to £24.2m on the back...

New radiotherapy system at Harley Street Clinic

The Harley Street Cancer Centre has installed RapidArc linear accelerator radiotherapy machines as part of a £25m investment programme in the latest cancer treatment...

Health and medical firms optimistic over future prospects

Companies operating in the health and medical sector are more confident about their future prospects than the average British business, according to research published...

NHSPN slams ‘incoherent’ Preferred Provider policy

The NHS Partners Network (NHSPN) has dubbed the government’s NHS as Preferred Provider plans as a ‘thoroughly incoherent’ policy which would have no ‘significant...