The Future for Primary Care Premises
For many primary care providers, the landlord of their surgery is their local primary care trust (PCT).
When PCTs cease to exist in April 2013...
Legally speaking – Business Focus
Performance dismissalsA report commissioned by the Prime Minister has suggested that unfair dismissal rights should be removed for performance dismissals.
The report states that to...
Hospitals look set to face tough competition for a static private healthcare sector healthcare...
In addition to the revelations on page 1 about competition within the hospital sector the report also analyses further statistics on the country’s acute...
M&A in the healthcare sector
2011 has been a landmark year for the healthcare sector.
While recent reports suggest that the NHS as a whole is holding up well in...
HMN meets Joy Chamberlain of Partnerships in Care
Q How did Partnerships in Care (PiC) start?A PiC opened its first unit, Grafton Manor in Northamptonshire, in 1983, and its first secure hospital,...
The outlook for the health care market in 2012
HMn asked some of the experts on its editorial consultants panel to review the economic situation for healthcare in the wake of George Osbourne’s...
Last word HMN meets Professor Philip Sugarman
St Andrew’s Healthcare is the largest not-for-profit mental Healthcare charity in the UK.
Siân Barton meets its chief executive, mental health expert Professor Philip Sugarman,...
Legally Speaking – Candour and honesty ahead for NHS
Jennifer Mellani, solicitor at Hempsons highlights the latest legal developments in the healthcare market from the Department of Health’s duty of candour to OFT?concerns...
Last Word
MedicX has been operating as a primary care developer business for around six years.
Siân Barton talks to Tim Meggitt, chief operating officer at MedicX...
Last Word: Maria Davies talks to John Lofthouse chief executive of London’s King Edward...
The Central London private hospital market has proved resilient during the downturn but it is not immune from the challenges faced by the sector.
Increasing...