healthcare

Private healthcare providers will be compelled to provide greater information on the quality and cost of treatments being offered to private patients and insurers.

Medical insurers have welcomed proposals by the Competition Commission (CC) to shake-up the private healthcare market, but hospital groups have reacted angrily, calling them "plainly wrong".

Prevention is the key to sustainable employee healthcare and reducing the associated long term costs and absence levels, according to Jelf Employee Benefits.

NHS trusts are failing to fully support staff's health and wellbeing, with just over half (57%) having a mental wellbeing policy in place, research reveals.