Skin care clinic strengthens market position

Park Clinic, Nottingham’s first medically supervised specialist skin care clinic, has teamed up with Stephen McCulley, a consultant plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgeon. A...

Spire signs go up at former BUPA hospitals

Cinven-backed Spire Healthcare has embarked on the prodigious task of rebranding the 25 hospitals it acquired from BUPA for £1.44bn in June. Signs began being...

PiC opens women’s step down facility

Partnerships in Care (PiC) has opened a new hospital in Dorking Surrey. The former NHS neurological rehabilitation care centre was acquired by PiC for...

DH publishes plans for new ‘super regulator’

Commissioners will be charged with ‘encouraging diversity of provision’ and ‘creating choice and competition where appropriate’, health secretary Alan Johnson announced last month.A document...

Private equity interest in healthcare set to continue

Private equity interest in the healthcare sector is set to remain high as investors continue to be drawn by its favourable long-term macro-economic and...

Dubai based investment company acquires Alliance Medical

Diagnostic imaging company Alliance Medical has been acquired by Dubai International Capital from Bridgepoint Capital for a gross valuation of £600m.Details of the deal...

New directors at Raphael Healthcare

Raphael Healthcare has announced three personnel moves. Paula Holdsworth, who was previously hospital director, has been promoted to operations director at Raphael’s Farndon Unit,...

ISTC data reveals low referral rates

First wave independent sector treatment centres (ISTCs) performed 50,000 fewer operations in 2006/07 than forecast by the Department of Health (DH), according to an...

Lord Ashcroft acquires 32.5% equity stake in Priory Group

Scandinavian healthcare company Global Health Partner Plc (GHP) has entered the UK and Scandanavian mental health sector after its major shareholder Lord Ashcroft acquired...

Record investment cut as chancellor announces 4% increase in NHS spending

Four years of record spending on the NHS will come to an end next year after Alistair Darling announced real terms annual increases of...