New chairs for NI DHSSPS

Northern Ireland's Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS) has announced the appointment of Deirdre Dorman as the new chair of the...

LSE’s Le Grand to advise Number 10

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) October 2003Julian Le Grand, professor of social policy at the London School of Economics, is to spend three days a...

IPPR’s Taylor moves to Number 10

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) October 2003Matthew Taylor, director of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), is to be seconded to Downing Street's Policy...

Windsor Recruitment strategy director

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) October 2003Healthcare recruitment agency Windsor Recruitment has appointed Derek Kitchen as strategy director. Kitchen joins Windsor from Northern Birmingham Mental...

NICE director quits to join Baxter

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) October 2003The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has announced that current corporate affairs director Anne-Toni Rodgers is is to...

NICE vice chair

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) October 2003The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has appointed Dr Susannah Lawrence OBE as vice chair of its board....

Florence Nightingale medical advisor

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) October 2003Dr Peter Snowden, consultant forensic psychiatrist at Ashworth Hospital, has been appointed as medical advisor to the Florence Nightingale...

Nestor takeover bid comes to nothing

Healthcare Market News (Company News) October 2003Talks over the 'unsolicited bid approach' made for Nestor Healthcare Group plc in June have come to an...

Management changes at BHSF

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) October 2003BHSF has announced a number of management appointments. Nick Wright has joined the Birmingham and Hull-based organisation as group...

MoD private healthcare bill up 50%

Healthcare Market News (News) October 2003The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has spent £9m over the last three years on private healthcare, according to figures...