CancerPartners UK forms partnership with Spire Healthcare

CancerPartners UK announced today (16 June) that it has formed a partnership with Spire Healthcare to provide cutting edge cancer treatments on three Spire...

Addition at Christie & Co

Julie-Ann Bennett has joined the healthcare team at Christie & Co as a negotiator. The role will involve transacting property deals for residential and...

Dementia set to take majority of mental health spend

The costs related to dementia care will take up the lion’s share of a projected £47bn mental health bill within the next 20 years...

Cannabis bumped up a class

The government has ignored the advice of its official advisors and decided to push forward with plans to reclassify cannabis as a Class B...

King’s Fund appointment

The King’s Fund has appointed Dr Anna Dixon as its new director of policy. She will replace Jennifer Dixon who left earlier this year...

New MD at Tribal

Tribal has appointed Matthew Swindells, currently interim chief information officer for the Department of Health (DH), as managing director for health. He previously worked...

Improved results from a new look Nuffield

Nuffield Hospitals has reported a strong set of results for 2007 but has emerged as a very different looking beast after selling off almost...

Higher costs reduce RIG Medical result

RIG Medical Recruit, the radiographer and occupational therapist recruitment arm of Recruitment Investment Group Limited, produced net profit 16% lower after an increased burden...

GHG revenues a boost for Netcare

Significant growth in NHS patient admissions has boosted General Healthcare Group’s revenues by 14.5%, according to Netcare. Reporting its results for the six months ending...

Focus on SME business drives growth for Standard Life

Standard Life Healthcare Ltd has published figures for the year ended 31 December 2007. Earned premiums (net of reinsurance) increased by 7.9% to £263.6m (2006:...