HM Special Reports

As NHS trusts continue to grapple with increasing demand and declining resources, more are turning to managed equipment services contracts to meet their imaging...

London’s lucrative international private patient market is coming under pressure as the gulf states seek to contain the cost of medical tourism in the...

With the latest figures from Laing & Buisson showing a dramatic fall in PMI subscribers over the last two years (HMN June 2011), insurers are having to come to terms with an increasingly challenging sector. AXA PPP Healthcare’s commercial director Fergus Craig, speaks frankly about his view of the challenges faced by the PMI sector. Ravender Sembhy

Rachel Diebel speaks to Andrew MacPherson, managing director of the Strategic Projects Team - and one of the masterminds behind the flagship Hinchingbrooke franchise

St Andrew’s Healthcare is the largest not-for-profit mental Healthcare charity in the UK. Siân Barton meets its chief executive, mental health expert Professor Philip Sugarman, who explains why the St Andrew’s model works and the plans in place to help the organisation continue to thrive

Patients get sick seven days a week so why do we still have a five day service in the NHS? The secretary of state for health, Jeremy Hunt, has been advocating for a proper 24/7 service for a while, pointing to worrying statistics that patients admitted and treated in hospitals at the weekends have a higher chance of dying than during the working week, because there are fewer staff on duty. Elsewhere in the service sector, from a consumer point of view, we have long been used to extended opening hours to meet our purchasing, banking, communications, and leisure requirements and to suit our availability, so why not in the NHS too, in order to meet our healthcare needs? Also, it seems such a waste of resource to have expensive diagnostic equipment lying fallow for two days every week when demand exceeds supply.

As the dust starts to settle on a surprising election result, what does the new Parliament hold in store for the NHS and the...

Alison Rose-Quirie, chair of the Independent Mental Health Services Alliance (IMHSA) talks about how the organisation is working to ensure the voice of independent mental health sector is heard

Three years after embarking on England's first whole population MSK contract in Bedfordshire, Circle says it is delivering tangible results for commissioners and patients...

There is nothing like a common enemy to bring together warring factions. The government's stance on IPT is fast making it the scourge of...