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Healthy Horizons
Private healthcare is entering a period of transformation where vigilance, innovation and investment are shaping the future of care. The headlines this week reflect this shift with striking clarity.
Record numbers using private health insurance in Wales
Private healthcare in Wales has seen a record increase in insurance uptake, according to a report from the providers themselves.
UK private health insurance market shows resilience amid self-pay decline
The UK’s private healthcare sector cooled slightly in the opening quarter of 2025, with overall admissions slipping for the first time in four years.
Supporting the development of neighbourhood health centres
A new strategic partnership will support system leaders to utilise and repurpose their existing estates for neighbourhood health.
Irish health research projects receive European funding
Studies will focus on improving heart stent durability; efforts to move away from animal testing for brain disease; and advancing equity, diversity and inclusion in clinical trials
Medical Council to publish position paper on AI in medicine later this year
Announcement made at sixteenth International Conference on Medical Regulation taking place in Dublin this week
Chickenpox danger warning as parents urged to look out for early symptoms in children
Children experiencing certain symptoms should be immediately kept away from school
Resilient Care
The private healthcare sector often finds itself at the intersection of crisis and opportunity.
‘Hi-tech’ hearing aids are also available on the NHS
Letters ‘Hi-tech’ hearing aids are also available on the NHS Raymond Antrobus may have switched to a private audiology clinic, but NHS provision isn’t so bad, says Rob Voakes Fri 15 Aug 2025 15.53 BST Share The closing paragraphs of Lucy Knight’s article (‘I’m carrying survivor’s guilt’: Raymond Antrobus on growing up deaf, 9 August) may have left readers with a misleading impression of the services and quality of hearing aids provided by the NHS.
Music festivals partnering with pouches that ‘addict a new generation to nicotine’
Nicotine pouches are addicting a new generation to the harmful drug, a clinical professor in public health has said, as calls mount for legislation to be introduced to combat the promotion of these dangerous products.
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