Employment

Explore career opportunities and employment practices within the private healthcare sector.

Agency Staff Working in Private Hospitals

It is common to find many agency staff working in both NHS and private hospitals but as patients do we fully understand the implications of this? All registe...

Disadvantages of Working in the Private Sector

Although there are often many obvious benefits or working in the private healthcare sector such as receiving your own person al private healthcare policy, th...

Employment in Private Hospitals

Anyone thinking about seeking careers opportunities in the private sector may first want to understand the structure of a typical private company and the emp...

NHS and Private Health Pensions

As we get older the relevance of having a pension to rely on when we retire becomes more and more important. Those working in the public sectors are usually...

Not-for-Profit Health Organisations

Although all private hospitals must be run as a business in order to succeed, not all are run purely to make a profit as most people expect from a business....

Offering Employees Private Healthcare

It is now fairly common for large businesses to offer their employees a private health insurance policy as part of their employment benefits package. There a...

Private Healthcare Training Opportunities

Staff training is a very important issue in both the NHS and the private sector but staff may sometimes be left wondering if they are receiving all the train...

Staff Benefits in Private Sector Health

Although there are hundreds of employees who are quite happy working in the NHS, there are some who have made the decision to leave and work in the private s...

Staff Entitlements in the NHS and Private Sector

As employees we are entitled to basic working conditions and access to certain services. Trade unions are constantly trying to improve conditions and the wor...

Trade Unions and the Private Sector

Trade unions are invaluable organisations that continually try to negotiate better terms and conditions for employees, intervene when staff believe the treat...