healthcare

South Kent Coast NHS clinical commissioning group (CCG) is to sign a contract allowing two France-based healthcare providers to treat patients across the Channel.

The NHS has proposed removing some drugs from the list of those funded by the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF).

The four year crude survival rate for head and neck cancers varies by over 30% depending on the type of cancer, an audit has found.

Denplan has warned that ‘hidden' sugar is making it hard for people to manage their sugar consumption, and encouraged people to go sugar-free for September.

People are living longer but they are seeing more illness and disability in their older years, research published in the Lancet has found.

Older cancer patients are no less likely to refuse treatment than younger patients, but are less likely to receive treatment, research from Macmillan has found.

Bupa UK has reported that its revenues increased in the first half of 2015, with UK revenue growing 3% to £1,375m, however underlying profit fell 10% to £55.4m, compared to 2014.

The gap between electricians' physical and mental health has been revealed by ECIS.

AXA PPP healthcare has completed its acquisition of Simplyhealth's private medical insurance (PMI) business.

Healthcode has launched an initiative to optimise electronic billing for insured patients, and appointed Sam Hobbes to lead the programme.