Hospitals

Private medical practitioners and healthcare providers must have greater transparency around conflict of interest declarations and give more prominence to expectations around patient consent. The tighter guidelines are part of the Independent...

Advisers are dubious over whether government commitments to improve access to GPs will prove successful amid soaring demand for virtual GP services from customers. The commitments feature in health and social care...

The government's reversal of its National Insurance Contributions (NICs) hike to fund the health and social care levy will hit the UK's coffers to the tune of more than £65bn over the...

Health and Social Care Secretary Thérèse Coffey has committed to maximising use of the private health sector to expand NHS capacity as part of a package of measures in the government's latest...

A KKR-led consortium of financial investors' bid to buy Ramsay Health Care appears to have proven unsuccessful after it was unable to improve the terms of its offer. Last month Health &...

More than three in 10 American cancer patients report trouble paying for their health needs, according to a survey from researchers at the University of Alabama-Birmingham using data from the Patient Advocate...

Will Quince has been appointed as health and social care minister. Quince (pictured) moves from the department for education where he was minister for school standards. He was previously parliamentary under secretary...

New health and social care secretary Therese Coffey has been told to "bust the backlog" as NHS England data shows the number of people waiting to start NHS treatment in England has...

Spire Healthcare has seen private medical insurance revenue climb 14.7% year-on-year, which the private hospital group says had fulfilled its expectations of a return to growth within the PMI market. According to...

Dr Thérèse Coffey has been appointed secretary of state for health and social care. Coffey (pictured) succeeds Steve Barclay, who has only held the post since July when he took over from...