Politics

The independent and private hospital and healthcare sector stands ready to continue to deliver services on behalf of the NHS as the health service gets set to undergo further reforms designed to...

The number of routine operations being carried out in the NHS fell by nearly a quarter in January as hospitals tried to cope with the influx of coronavirus patients during a difficult start...

Resilience has been put at the heart of the British Insurance Brokers’ Association’s  vision for the next year as the trade body published its manifesto for 2021. The trade body used the...

Patients can expect to wait for more than 12 months to receive routine NHS procedures ‘for some years’, health bosses have warned. Waiting more than a year for treatment will become ‘normal’...

The pandemic has put the issue of care homes and long-term care – often at the back of most people’s minds – firmly in the spotlight and yet many still fail to...

Some NHS dental patients have been asked to pay for private care "if they want any treatment", a watchdog has warned. Waits of up to two years for an NHS appointment are...

Care home workers across the country are struggling to make ends meet because they are still not given full pay when they are ill, it has been claimed. Trade union Unison said...

January 2021 was the “saddest” in the past ten years, according to official figures. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show that for Britain’s mental wellbeing, this January was the worst...

Independent/private healthcare providers have delivered over 135,000 cancer treatments to both NHS and private patients throughout the coronavirus pandemic, according to new data compiled by the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN). The...

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...