IS performs well in 100 best healthcare places to work

Benenden Hospital Trust is the UK’s top healthcare employer, according to a survey published last month and backed by NHS Employers. The independent hospital beat...

Ministers set out new vision for PBC

Primary care trusts (PCTs) that cannot demonstrate strong clinical involvement and support for practice based commissioning (PBC) will be given the lowest score in...

BMI reports 30% increase in weight-loss surgery

BMI Hospitals has seen in a surge in the number of patients requiring weight-loss surgery. BMI, which is part of General Healthcare Group, reported a...

Sales grow but losses up at Specialist Dental Holdings

Specialist Dental Holdings Ltd, formerly James Hull Group Plc, has reported a 170% surge in turnover for the year ended 30 April 2008.The company,...

Continuing Care

Norman Lamb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (9 Mar 2009: Column 134W) what assessment he has made of the effect of...

Growth as Mears embraces homecare

Social housing repairs and maintenance supplier and homecare provider Mears Group published record results for the year ended 31 December 2008 last month, with...

DH to go ‘further and faster’ to counteract recession

The government is speeding up the roll out of its talking therapies programme in an effort to protect the country against an epidemic of...

Campus closures will hit 2010 target

The government remains confident its multi-million pound programme to decommission all NHS campus-style accommodation for people with learning disabilities is on track to meet...

Bupa surplus plunges as recession takes its toll

Year-end results released by BUPA last month reveal that even the most mighty of beasts cannot escape the impact of the global economic crisis. Profits...

Dignity measures at Southern Cross

The government’s dignity agenda continues to inform provider appointments with the news that Southern Cross Healthcare has appointed Terry Lillico as dignity manager for...