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This week, Bupa is calling for a 15% reduction in the cost of private healthcare. Damien Marmion, MD of Bupa, says there is a danger that the sector could "flat-line and then decline if nothing is done” and that that "the industry needs to urgently rethink how it sets prices".
Given the financial and resource pressures on the NHS, the private healthcare market should be showing healthy growth. But it isn’t. Private health insurance numbers are stagnant; private hospitals are topping up occupancy with NHS patients at reduced pricing levels. Only the self-pay market is ...
Introduced at the hospital by Mr Des Barton, Consultant Gynaecological Surgeon, the PlasmaJet device uses the plasma energy from ionised argon gas to cut through and dissect tissue, stop bleeding and destroy cancer cells safely.
Purple Surgical, a leading UK manufacturer of surgical devices, established since 1909 and present in over 80 countries worldwide, are now confirmed as the UK's exclusive distributor of Obalon. Obalon is a revolutionary weight loss treatment that involves the world’s first weight loss balloon ...
The self pay market could prove to be the key to business growth for private hospitals and private consultants in 2014. For many self pay patients, price is a key determinant of choice...but certainly not the sole factor. Only recently (and stimulated by the Competition Commission ...
One of the country’s most senior statesmen was guest of honour at the opening of a new Endoscopy Suite at BMI Chiltern Hospital in Buckinghamshire.
A North-West leading diagnostic imaging company has merged with a well-known provider of ultrasound services. The deal between Altrincham-based Diagnostic Healthcare and Chester-based Ultrasound Now will create a major provider of diagnostic services in the North West, Yorkshire, the Midlands ...
Spire Healthcare has fixed the price of 15 procedures and updated the terms and conditions for all self-pay procedures to make treatment prices more inclusive and simpler for patients to understand. The 15 chosen procedures are often rationed by NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups. Prices will be ...
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