Sunak’s pledge to fine NHS no-shows slammed by British Medical Association July 31, 2022 The British Medical Association (BMA) has today hit back at Rishi Sunak’s pledge to issue £10 fines to patients for missed GP appointments. The trade association said charging patients was not the answer to tackling the NHS backlog, and that it is “terribly disappointing that the candidates standing to be the next prime minister seem [...]
UK’s private healthcare market booms as NHS case backlog hits record levels July 22, 2022 A surge in people choosing to pay for surgeries out of their own pockets has seen overall activity in the UK’s private healthcare sector bounce back to pre-pandemic levels. More than 250,000 British people opted to pay for private healthcare themselves in 2021, instead of using the NHS, in a shift that has offset a [...]
CMA slaps Pfizer with record £63m fine for ‘illegally exploiting dominant position to overcharge NHS’ July 21, 2022 Drugmakers Pfizer, as well as Flynn, received a fine of close to £70m after they overcharged the NHS for a life-saving epilepsy drug, the UK competition watchdog has announced. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the two pharmaceutical giants “abused their dominant positions” in the market to charge unfairly high prices over a four-year [...]
Disinfectant product maker rides post-pandemic crest as it looks to break America July 18, 2022 Infection prevention product manufacturer Tristel rode the crest of the post-pandemic wave and weathered Brexit disruption, as it sets its sight on the American market. The company benefited from society recovering from coronavirus, with a spike in the use of disinfectant products, particularly in hospitals, as procedures return after lockdowns. It said there were almost [...]
NHS takes it to the sky with new fleet of drones to drop chemotherapy drugs across UK in first of its kind July 5, 2022 The NHS said this morning it plans to use drones to deliver chemotherapy drugs in a bid to speed up the delivery of vital medicines across the UK. It is hoped that using drone technology will one day enable doctors to make “same-day delivery” orders for drugs and medical equipment from anywhere in the country. [...]
Capita posts ‘strong’ first half results as BBC TV licensing contract boosts outsourcer’s revenues June 29, 2022 Capita today posted “strong” results for the first half of 2022, after a series of “significant” government contracts boosted its H1 revenues. The outsourcing company said trading in the first half of 2022 sat in line with expectations, as it said its revenues were bolstered by the renewal of a £456m contract to run the [...]
Britain faces ‘mass exodus’ of GPs as nearly half of all trainee doctors plan to quit June 22, 2022 Patients could be put at risk due to a “mass exodus” of family doctors, leading medics have warned. The Royal College of GPs (RCGP) has estimated that almost 19,000 GPs are planning to leave the profession over the next five years. Of the 1,262 GP and trainee respondents, 42 per cent say they are likely [...]
Covid hospitalisations in England up 24 per cent from last week June 21, 2022 Coronavirus hospitalisations in England have surged by almost 25 per cent in the last week, as cases spread like wildfire once more across the globe. New figures released by the NHS this week highlight 5,726 beds occupied by Covid patients as of 20 June, up from 4,602 on the previous Monday. The spike in cases [...]
Monkeypox cases surge to 366 across UK as government passes legislation to tackle it June 10, 2022 The number of Monkeypox cases has surged pass 350 as the UK passed legislation to tackle the virus this week. UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) detected 43 cases by 9 June, bringing the total number to 366, up from 321 on 7 June. The infection, which can be transmitted by close physical contact, has particular [...]
Healthcare jaws drop as Sajid Javid calls NHS ‘a defunct Blockbuster video rental store in the age of Netflix’ June 8, 2022 Jaws dropped in and outside Westminster today after the Health Secretary likened the NHS to a now-defunct video rental store in a world dominated by streaming services, saying the country has a “Blockbuster healthcare system in the age of Netflix”. Downing Street said Sajid Javid told a Cabinet meeting earlier today that it is “no [...]