Hospitals

Bupa’s Cromwell Hospital in London has opened a new long-Covid clinic to help those with ongoing symptoms from the virus. The move comes as figures from the Office for National Statistics suggest...

Healix International has won the UK Government contract to look after the global healthcare of its 25,000 travelling and overseas workers until 2025. The contract, under the One HMG banner, is the...

The Mayo Clinic has appointed Richard Pisarski as head of business development in London, LaingBuissonNews.com reports. Pisarski, who has more than 20 years’ experience in healthcare in both private and public sectors,...

The Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) – the independent, government-mandated source of information on privately-funded healthcare in the UK – has announced the appointment of three new non-executive directors. A PHIN spokesperson...

Legal experts are warning that frontline healthcare workers could fall victim to a slew of Covid-related clinical negligence lawsuits. The Medical Defence Union (MDU) said it is worried that staff, “already at...

NHS England has called on the independent/private healthcare sector to help it to manage the way that patients are discharged home from hospital. Independent/private sector providers for hospital at home services and...

Specialist health and wellbeing intermediary and consultancy PES is ramping up its ambitious plans with the appointment of Stuart Gray, founder and chairman of Portus Consulting, as non-executive chairman. Health & Protection’s...

Cancer patients across the country are more worried than ever about their chances of survival as the pandemic causes more delays and cancellations to diagnostic tests, surgery and other procedures, a charity...

Mercer announced today the appointment of Ashok Gupta as chair of its UK board. Gupta will also chair the organisation’s Risk Committee and the Nominations Committee. Gupta succeeds Jane Barker, CBE, who...

The grim prospect of surge in untreated cervical cancer cases is the latest bad news to be prompted by the disruption to healthcare systems caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Women across the...