Hospitals

Medicash has reached half million policyholders after experiencing significant growth over the past few years. To mark the achievement the Liverpool-based company’s charitable arm, the Medicash Foundation, has launched a £2.1m project...

The decline in individual protection sales in 2022 indicates the sector is levelling back to normal numbers, according to the author of Swiss Re's latest Term and Health Watch report. The latest...

A further 100,000 people have been added to NHS England waiting lists, according to official NHS data. This brings the number of people on the NHS England waiting list for treatment to...

Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC) phase two holds "considerable" promise for insurers operating in the region, as growing numbers of expats seek healthcare support in their retirement on the Arabian Peninsula. The DHCC...

Spire Healthcare has appointed Professor Lisa Grant as group clinical director and chief nurse. Over a 25-year career with the NHS, Grant was a chief operating officer in large acute NHS trusts...

From October patients who have waited for NHS treatment for 40 weeks or more will be given the chance to switch hospitals under plans outlined by the prime minister aimed at cutting...

The number of patients receiving treatment through private medical insurance (PMI) rose in the fourth quarter of the year to reach its highest level since before the pandemic hit. Last year was...

Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC) is to add to a new heart and lung hospital as part of its phase two expansion. The Prime Heart and Lung Hospital, a new nine-storey complex spanning...

Patients will be offered the choice of booking treatment in private hospitals on the NHS app as part of a drive to reduce waiting lists, according to reports. The Times reported that...

Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting (pictured) claims Labour would make greater use of spare capacity in the private health sector to arrest spiralling wait times for NHS treatment. NHS England data released...