Healthcare Markets

The Guy Pilkington Memorial Home, the charity which runs the Fairfield Independent Hospital, has achieved a small increase in total income to £11.8m for the year ended 31 December 2014 despite continued challenges in the market.

BHSF, the employee benefits, healthcare insurance and HR support services provider has bought onboard Abbott Burke Associates, the occupational health services provider to form a new division of BHSF group to be called BHSF Corporate Healthcare Limited.

There is growing acceptance amongst the British public that the NHS cannot cover all of the population’s healthcare needs, recent findings from Simplyhealth’s Everyday Health Tracker suggests.

Mental health service users have double the rate of hospital attendances compared to the general population – across A&E, inpatients and outpatient services, according to Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) data. Four in 10 service users visited A&E at least once in 2011/12 compared to two in 10 of the general population.

Independent mental health providers should be engaged in planning services to improve the way mental health systems work locally, according to the Independent Commission set up to review the provision of acute adult inpatient psychiatric care in England.

Health property investor and developer Octopus Healthcare has appointed Sheila Hendy as a clinical assurance director.

A husband and wife GP firm, SSP Health has been named as preferred bidder to run 20 practices operated by the Liverpool and Sefton primary care trusts.

HMn talks to Dominic Dalli, partner at private equity firm Sovereign Capital, who about how private equity can work with the health care sector to improve services

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