Following the announcement in January that Private Healthcare Information Network’s (PHIN) founding chief executive Matt James is stepping down, Jack Griffin, PHIN’s finance and commercial director, is taking over as acting chief executive from 1 April.

The Care Quality Commission has appointed Dr Sean O'Kelly as the new chief inspector of hospitals.

Independent hospital group Spire Healthcare Group today announced a loss after tax of £8.9 million.

HCA Healthcare UK has appointed Soraya Chamberlain in a new role as vice-president of corporate sales, responsible for driving growth across HCA UK’s corporate client business.

Following its failed bit to acquire Spire Healthcare, Ramsay Health Care has announced net profit of A$158.9 million (£85.6 million) for the half-year ending 31 December 2021.

Skincare specialist Sk:n has appointed David Collyer as group chief commercial officer.

Healthcare charity Nuffield Health has appointed Alison McCourt as clinical services director, to provide leadership to clinical teams.

A Q&A with Simon McGuire, GE’s regional general manager for the UK and Northern Europe

Croydon-based Health & Case Management (HCML), a rehabilitation and care management provider, has appointed Dr Rebecca Brady as medical director.

GE Healthcare has signed a 10-year partnership agreement with Circle Health Group, the largest independent healthcare provider in the UK.

The UK’s largest private hospital group has begun to rebrand its national network of hospitals. From today, BMI Healthcare will be known as Circle Health Group and a new website is being launched.

Business advisory firm ReSolve has sold Halsa Care Group, a Bracknell-headquartered care group providing physiotherapy and chiropractic services at nine locations across the UK.

Ramsay Health Care has appointed Nick Costa as chief executive of Ramsay Health Care UK.

Independent charitable hospital King Edward VII’s has opened a new facility offering diagnostic services and outpatient care.

Private health groups have struck a three-month deal with NHS England to offer extra emergency support as Omicron cases surge. The aim is to avoid delays in treatment for patients with illnesses such as cancer.

Offsite manufacturing firm Premier Modular has won a £21 million contract to construct a new outpatient services building at King’s College Hospital in London.

Croydon-based Health & Case Management, a rehabilitation and care management provider, has appointed Nick Delaney as chief executive.

Medical and surgical services provider Kingsbridge Healthcare Group has received a multimillion-pound funding package to support its expansion plans.

A new £5 million private hospital has opened in Livingstone, Scotland. It will be operated by Cosmedicare UK, a privately-owned cosmetic surgery provider.

London-based healthcare private equity investor Apposite Capital has acquired rehabilitation and care management provider HCML and advanced microscopy systems manufacturer CrestOptics. HealthInvestor chats with Sam Gray, managing partner of Apposite to find out more.

The fertility market is undergoing a rapid transformation thanks to a new crop of start-ups, according to a new report from Octopus Ventures

Sophie McGrath examines innovation aiming to correct the underrepresentation of women in clinical trials and research and the design of healthcare systems

Life Science REIT has raised £350 million in an initial public offering. New ordinary shares were issued at £1 each and the company has made an application for 350 million shares to be admitted to AIM.

Priory, the provider of mental health services and specialist residential adult care services, has appointed Rebekah Cresswell as its UK chief executive.

Pharmaceutical industry consultancy firm Rephine has changed hands via a management buyout, by a team comprising the existing senior managers together with a new chief executive, chief financial officer and chair, backed by Kester Capital, a London-based private equity investor and primary buyout firm.

LycaHealth is investing more than £140 million over the next five years, primarily in the Southeast, where LycaHealth will add independent hospital KIMS Hospital in Kent and its associated medical centre in Sevenoaks to its medical centres already operating in London.

Healthcare charity Nuffield Health has agreed to acquire five hospitals from Aspen Healthcare in a deal expected to complete on Thursday.

Independent hospital group Spire Healthcare Group is acquiring an 87% stake in Claremont Private Hospital in Sheffield.

Keith Berelowitz discusses how innovations in the design and delivery of clinical trials are generating time and cost savings for industry

King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust is transferring staff at its urgent treatment centre at Denmark Hill in southeast London to Greenbrook Healthcare under a three-year, £10 million contract beginning 4 October.

The Prime Minister today announced a tax hike to raise £36 billion over the next three years to take on the social care crisis and plug holes in the NHS budget.

A Harley Street outpatient and diagnostic centre unveils its new brand today with Harley Street Medical Centre rebranding as UME Health.

Medical Imaging Partnership and Prime Health Diagnostics have launched new, dual corporate brand identities.

The Portland Hospital for Women and Children, part of HCA Healthcare UK, has acquired The Birth Company.

The Care Quality Commission has published a report detailing the reasons behind its decision to close a hospital near Market Drayton for people with a learning disability and autistic people.

London-based private ophthalmic clinic OCL Vision has appointed Alby Wakeling as head of operations.

Ramsay Health Care’s attempted acquisition of independent UK hospital group Spire Healthcare was thwarted on 19 July when votes at the general meeting and the court meeting fell below the 75% minimum threshold needed for the takeover offer to proceed.

The Care Quality Commission has told Mediscan Diagnostic Services to make urgent improvements to the quality of its diagnostic and screening core service at its Manchester location and at its Mediscan Centre in Oldham.

Private equity and infrastructure investment manager Foresight Group has invested £1.7 million into healthtech Hexarad Group, as part of a £2.3 million funding round.

Circle Health Group has appointed Peter James as medical director and responsible officer.

Private equity firm bd-capital has made its second investment into physiotherapy and mental wellbeing company Ascenti.

CA Healthcare Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company is merging with London-based LumiraDx, a point of care diagnostics testing company.

Private healthcare provider, Spire Healthcare, is launching a new nurse degree apprenticeship programme in partnership with the University of Sunderland.

Medical Imaging Partnership and Prime Health, part of Imaging Holdings, have secured a significant funding facility from Apposite Capital.

Med24 is opening its first clinic on 29 March in London, offering immediate access to GPs 24/7 via an online service or in-person at the clinic.

International healthcare company Bupa has reported 2020 statutory profit before taxation of £410 million, compared to a loss before taxation of £78 million reported for 2019.

Independent hospital group Spire Healthcare Group today announced a 2020 loss of £20.7 million, with the loss increasing to £233.9 million after adjusting items.

A report by Public Policy Projects calls on the UK government to place digital innovation at the heart of reforms included in the recently published White Paper.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson may be planning to reduce the role of private healthcare in NHS England.

Private oncology provider Rutherford Health has stated it expects to raise funding by the end of March, either through a debt refinancing, sale and leaseback agreements or an equity raising

Totally, the provider of a range of healthcare services across the UK and Ireland, has been awarded a number of contract extensions and continued pilot funding worth a total of approximately £7.2 million.

Manchester University Foundation Trust has stated that it has encountered problems accessing capacity at its local Spire, BMI and Ramsay hospitals

London-based healthtech start-up HealthHero has acquired Irish telehealth service, MyClinic.ie.

Add a New Post Edit with Elementor Save draft Preview Publish Add title Spire Healthcare signs NHS contract and publishes trading update Independent hospital group Spire Healthcare Group today announced an update on its contract with NHS England and provided a trading update.

Digital health company HealthHero has acquired digital triage provider Doctorlink after global investor Eight Roads sold its stake.

Two-thirds of the private sector capacity block-purchased by the NHS at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds, went unused over the summer.

FPE Capital, a software and services-focused lower mid-market growth investor has invested in Togetherall, a London-based mental health software-as-a-service platform.

Healthcare investment business Optimism Health Group has acquired Outside Clinic, a domiciliary eye care and hearing care business.

Investment bank Jefferies has published its third annual Jefferies Healthcare Temperature Check providing feedback from 500 healthcare senior leaders, including major investors and chief executives.

Start Codon, a life science and healthcare business accelerator based in Cambridge, today announced it has closed Start Codon Fund I LP at £15 million.

UK-based teleradiology firm Medica has acquired Global Diagnostics Ireland from the private Irish healthcare group Centric Health for an initial cash consideration of €16 million (£14.5 million).

Psyomics, a healthtech and University of Cambridge spin-out, has closed a £1.5 million funding round from existing and new investors to bring its Censeo mental health assessment and diagnosis platform to market in the UK.

Clinical AI company Sensyne Health has signed a five-year non-exclusive Strategic Research Agreement with Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to enable the ethical application of clinical AI research to improve patient care and accelerate research into new medicines.

Proton therapy specialist Advanced Oncotherapy has announced a £7.7 million equity fundraise through direct subscription.

Belfast-based Blue Zinc, a provider of solutions to the musculoskeletal and mental health markets, has acquired Baulkham Hills, New South Wales-based Collab IT, the sole distributor of Blue Zinc’s TM3 suite of products in Australia

NHS England and NHS Improvement have signed a new national agreement that is connecting prisons in England with specialists in their local hospital through a video collaboration platform provided by healthtech company Visionable.

Public service union Unison today called on the government to ensure the roll-out of any Covid-19 vaccine is managed entirely by the NHS and public bodies, adding that it apposed the involvement of private firms and the use of unqualified staff.

London-based mental health care company Compass Pathways has closed its initial public offering of 8,625,000 American Depositary Shares for $17.00 per ADS, raising $146.6 million.

Black Country Pathology Services has pushed ahead with an initiative to create a laboratory network to serve four trusts and delivered a go-live for its CliniSys laboratory information system.

Nottingham-based Care Fertility has acquired Nuffield Health’s Woking Assisted Conception Service (ACS), backed by private equity house, Silverfleet Capital.

Health tech company DrDoctor has closed a £3 million Series A funding round from venture capital firms Ananda Impact Ventures and 24Haymarket.

London-based WEP Group Holdings, a specialist contract research organisation which delivers lifesaving drugs to patients that have an unmet clinical need, is making a strategic investment in Wren Healthcare, a clinical nursing healthcare provider in the EU.

Medefer, a business-to-business virtual healthcare provider today announced a £10 million funding round led by private investment firm Nickleby Capital.