healthcare

Spire Healthcare Group and Bupa UK have announced a renewed long-term agreement for six years from April 2015.

Nurses are concerned about their ability to deliver care to dying patients with 10.5% feeling able to always deliver the right level of care to patients.

Doctors, nurses and midwives are to be required to be open and honest about mistakes to patients in new guidelines.

The potential cost of employee mental health problems to businesses has been highlighted in two separate pieces of research from two insurers.

Canada Life Group insurance will continue to provide the RedArc Personal Nurse Adviser service for all its group critical illness claimants.

Among British small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) 23% do not have an absence management system in place, research from Jelf Employee Benefits has found.

There has been an increase in the number of companies offering health benefits on an employee-paid basis with cost being a key consideration.

NHS consultants can and should do more work in out-of-hospital settings, says a report from The King's Fund.

Four out of five of the least popular employee wellness programmes are designed to stop smoking.

The Care Quality Commission's (CQC) State of Care report has been published, highlighting problem areas in care.