Expanded Towergate appoints head of consulting services

Towergate Employee Benefits has hired Mark Pugh as head of consulting services. His appointment to the newly created role comes as the company rebrands from...

Cygnet Harrow ward opens as part of £4m upgrade

Cygnet Hospital Harrow has opened a new acute mental health ward for men, part of a £4m renovation aimed at expanding emergency mental health...

What does it mean to Go Private in 2024?

IHPN CEO David Hare delves into the details of its second Going Private report, which revealed growing acceptance of private healthcare, particularly among younger...

Isokinetic opens specialist sports medicine research hub in Bologna

Harley’s Street based Isokinetic Medical Group has opened a new Campus in Bologna, Italy. The sports medicine and rehabilitation specialist said the new centre...

HCRG secures major community services contract

HCRG Care Group has secured a £144m a year contract to lead the provision of all community health services across Bath, North East Somerset,...

Failings at CQC has led to ‘substantial loss of credibility’

Failings in the internal workings of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have led to a ‘substantial loss of credibility’ within the health and social...

Broadstone expands with strategic hires

Financial services consultancy Broadstone has appointed James Sayer as a senior risk & healthcare consultant and James Lang as a risk & healthcare principal...

UK breast surgery in the independent sector

In the latest column from the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN), Joshua Vaughan, healthcare data analyst, and Dhirav Patel, graduate healthcare data analyst, explore...

Nuffield rolls out aquablation therapy in new sites

Nuffield Health has launched aquablation therapy, a robotic treatment for men with Benign Prostate Hyperplasia (BPH), at its Parkside and Oxford hospitals. BPH, which affects...

Single speciality providers gain foothold as outpatient growth outpaces inpatient care

There has been a shift in the league table of top independent sector healthcare providers as growth in outpatient and diagnostic activity continues to...