Regular testing to be rolled out in care homes

Staff and residents in care homes for over 65s and those with dementia will receive regular coronavirus tests from next week. Workers will be tested...

Not We…Us: adapting to support the NHS through the Covid-19 crisis and beyond

Like many independent healthcare providers, Transform Hospital Group turned over its capacity to the NHS in March as part of the national effort to...

Residents and staff still waiting to be tested, survey finds

More than 4,000 staff and residents in not-for-profit care homes are still awaiting Covid-19 testing, analysis by the National Care Forum (NCF) has found.  A...

Bupa launches Covid-19 support services for employers

Bupa Health Clinics has launched a range of services to help businesses support the return of their staff following the initial wave of the...

Healthcare providers will adopt more outpatient settings post Covid

Healthcare delivery will likely see an increase in the adoption of outpatient settings following the Covid-19 pandemic, attendees at LaingBuisson’s M&A and Investing with...

Healthcare sector primed for surge in new investor interest

The UK healthcare sector’s demonstrated resilience through the Covid-19 pandemic is attracting new investors into the market. Sam Gray, managing partner at Apposite Capital, told...

Civitas positive over prospects despite wider economic concerns

Civitas Social Housing is positive about its prospects despite the uncertain environment caused by Covid-19. The provider of care-based housing in the UK for individuals...

Health and social care resilience could lead to ‘influx of new investors’

The resilience shown in health and social care during the pandemic could lead to greater investor appetite in the sector. While some areas have performed...

Phased reintroduction of care home visits

Care home residents in Scotland will be able to receive visitors outside from the end of next week, provided properties meet strict criteria and...
Good guidance practice issued care providers

Social care ombudsman ready to take on new complaints

The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman will resume all casework and take on new complaints from the end of this month. The ombudsman paused...

Indian e-health service adjusts to lockdown

Gina Wilkinson explains how 1mg, the country’s largest integrated online health platform, has adapted to life under lockdown with strategies to support the government’s...
Central London private acute hospital market stalls

NHS will need to work with independent sector to address ‘massive capacity shortfall’ says...

The NHS has a ‘massive capacity shortfall’ and will need to continue working with the independent sector ‘over some time to come’ in order...

Bupa expands remote service offering

Bupa UK said today that it is expanding its range of remote clinical services in the UK following ‘huge’ demand in the wake of...

HMi meets… Sangita Reddy

The joint managing director of Apollo Hospitals talks about the relationship between private healthcare and the government, and her priorities for the post-Covid-19 world Sangita...

New data shows massive drop in private patient activity during Covid-19 surge

Episodes of privately funded healthcare were down an estimated 84% year-on-year at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, new data from the Private Healthcare...

PMI demand yet to recover from 2008 downturn as UK heads into recession

The market for private medical insurance demonstrated very low growth in 2018, continuing the static trend seen since 2015 as hikes in insurance premium...

NHS will need independent sector capacity to sustain elective surgery, MPs told

The president of the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) today told MPs that it could take years for routine NHS surgery to return to...
Nuffield Health partners with Leicester Real World Evidence Unit

Nuffield temporarily cuts staff hours and pay to avoid redundancies

Nuffield Health has said it plans to ‘continually review’ a decision to implement reduced working hours and salaries for its staff in the wake...

MPS warns of ‘tsunami’ of claims without action to tackle waiting list backlog

The Medical Protection Society (MPS) has joined calls for the government to take urgent action to clear the backlog of patients awaiting treatment as...

Young people detained in hospitals vulnerable to abuse, report finds

Coronavirus has left the human rights of young people in detention who are autistic or have learning disabilities vulnerable to abuse. A report by the...