Southern Cross under financial pressure
Month: May 2011
Morgan Price launches budget iPMI option
Some cover 'better than none at all'
Clegg: NHS Bill will require ‘big changes’
Bill may return to committee stage
Savers ‘penalised’ in chronically under-funded care system
Insurance 'part of the solution'
Patients with anxiety ‘should be able to self-refer’
New guidelines aim to widen access to treatment
EU directive: NHS must fund care abroad
Rise in waiting times may grow demand for treatment in EU
Private hospitals prepare to publish quality data
But data may still be incomplete
Inspection regime uncovers ‘unjustifiable’ failures in elderly care
Patients still not being treated with dignity
NHS disruption ‘an opportunity for PMI’
People 'will look to buy their way out of long waiting times'
‘Dramatic’ fall in NHS mixed-sex accommodation
But some hospitals continue to breach ban
Sickness absence data reveals gender divide
Women more likely to care for children
More than 35,000 patients waiting more than 18 weeks for ops
Average NHS wait still around eight weeks
Mercer: 25% of UK companies collect no absence data
Yet cost control the priority for benefits managers
Employers face £3bn bill for unhealthy lifestyles
'Huge' savings to be made by 2025
Changes at BIBA PMI Focus Group
Decision by chair and deputy to step down 'not connected' to PMI referral scheme
Specialist brokers call for withdrawal of BIBA PMI scheme
BIBA to issue new terms of business agreement - but some brokers not impressed
Dentists making private recommendations ‘gaming the system’
Patients in the operating chair 'told to go private'
King’s Fund: NHS must end ‘outmoded’ focus on hospital care
Integrated care cited as answer to NHS funding gap