The UK health care think tank, The King's Fund, has published a report considering responses to the forthcoming financial challenges for the NHS. This warns that managers may face a funding gap of up to £40bn in the five-year period from 2011. It describes the NHS as facing a 'perfect storm' of funding cutbacks, rising costs and increasing workload due to an ageing population and increasing patient expectations.
Private hospitals are seeing a slump in the number of self-pay cases. They are though treating increasing numbers of NHS patients. However, this may undermine the value of Private Medical Insurance unless hospitals can differentiate their services between their NHS and private patients.
Two U.S. studies published in the Archives of Internal Medicine have found that heart attacks are becoming more common in middle-aged women. However, less women are dying from them.
Waiting times for operations emerge as a key concern for Britons in a new survey about health systems in the UK, US, Germany and India. A larger proportion of UK respondents also felt they have little or no influence over where and how they are treated, compared with any of the other three countries covered in the survey.
New research from the EuroHeart mapping project shows large differences in death rates due to heart disease across 16 European countries. For men under 65, only Hungary, Estonia, Slovakia, Greece and Finland were worse than the UK.
Despite the health secretary claiming there are no more waiting lists in the NHS, the Liberal Democrats have exposed new figures showing a quarter of a million people waiting more than 18 weeks for treatment in the UK.
The NHS is facing its biggest organisational and financial challenge ever in the shape of a £15bn real terms funding gap, according to a report from the NHS Confederation. The shortfall for the five years from 2011 is equivalent to a funding decrease of 2.5-3% per year.
Speaking at Laing and Buisson’s annual Private Medical Insurance conference, Professor Karol Sikora has warned that top-ups are just the thin end of the wedge in an inevitable movement towards a co-payment model for funding healthcare, making the involvement of the private sector inevitable.
PruHealth's revolutionary approach to Private Medical Insurance, which rewards customers for following more healthy lifestyles, has been hugely successful. Its new 'Select Plan' extends its reach into mid-range benefits for customers on a budget.
Employers must take care when offering employee benefits not to offend against age discrimination legislation. For example, PMI premiums that might typically reflect employees' age, gender and claims history may well now fall foul of this legislation.
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