Healthcare Markets

BMI Healthcare has announced plans to open an urgent care centre at Mount Alvernia Hospital in Guildford. Due to open this autumn, it will be...

Assura has announced plans to raise up to £330m in its second share issue in 12 months. The specialist healthcare REIT, which raised £98m in...

Healthcare service provider UDG Healthcare has appointed Nigel Clerkin as chief financial officer. Clerkin will take up his position on 1 May and will...

Priory has appointed Dr Martine Stoffels as medical director of its acquired brain injury services. As part of the newly created role, Stoffel will be...

Andrew Lansley, Secretary of State for health, hit out at the health select committee’s report into NHS reform calling it unfair and out of date’. The health select committee report, which was published late last month, laid out some stiff criticism of the planned reforms. The report warned that hospitals would be forced into short term salami-slicing’ as they scrambled to save £20bn by 2015.

London Bridge Hospital, which is run by HCA International has opened an expanded critical care unit (CCU).

Circle has received cautious approval from investment house Investec. Sebastien Jantet, analyst at Investec, has professed Circle’s interim results broadly in-line in with Investec’s expectations and says the management team has made real progress at Hinchingbrooke, Bath and Reading. However he says there is still a lot to do.

Circle looks set to retain its stewardship of the Nottingham Independent NHS Treatment Centre following an announcement revealing that it is preferred bidder to run the centre for a further five years from July 2013.

The Lister Hospital in London has opened a unit, called The Unit, providing comprehensive acute emergency and elective care under a teaching hospital structure and governance standards’.

Aspen opened a £50,000 high dependency unit at its Holly House hospital last month.