healthcare

Patients have been dragged into a dispute between Bupa and hospital group BMI Healthcare.

The private sector will find opportunities opening as the UK moves NHS secondary healthcare services out of hospitals and into community based settings, according to Laing & Buisson.

Simplyhealth believes the NHS is crumbling and now is the best chance to change the structure of the country's healthcare system in the last 50 years.

PruHealth has expanded its Vitality programme to include group scheme members and Standard Life Healthcare customers.

The NHS has been banned from attempting to save money by enforcing minimum waiting times for patients following referrals.

The government has been ordered to publish a report it attempted to keep secret that details the risks of its NHS reforms.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) has banned another breast cancer drug from routine NHS use.

For those seeking a break from the norm, Owain Thomas discovers the IPMI market is both growing strongly and increasingly dynamic

The government's assertion that the National Health Service is inefficient and ineffective in treating cancer has been challenged by academics.

This genetic illness affects about one in 800 people in the UK. Mary Randell explains how advisers can offer cover for it