Scottish Provident director

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) August 1999Scottish Provident has appointed Dr Oonagh McDonald a non-executive director of the Scottish Provident board.Dr McDonald entered Parliament as...

Contract win for Initial

Healthcare Market News (Company News) August 1999Initial Health Personnel Services has been awarded a three year contract as the sole supplier of temporary and...

Nestor upbeat interims

Healthcare Market News (Company News) August 1999Nestor Healthcare Group reported revenues up 35% to £139m for the 24 weeks to 18 June 1999. Profit...

New president for Royal College

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) July 1999Professor John Lee Cox has taken over as president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, replacing Dr Robert Kendall....

CSG director

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) July 1999Corporate Services Group has this month announced the departure of its head of healthcare Geoffrey Shopland. The company, which...

Appointment of NHS regional chairmen

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) July 1999Secretary of State for Health Frank Dobson has announced that he has re-appointed six of the eight NHS Executive...

NICE appointments

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) July 1999The National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) has announced the appointment of Professor Peter Littlejohns as clinical director and...

PDS chief executive

Mary Baker has been appointed chief executive of the Parkinson's Disease Society (PDS).Mary Baker joined PDS in 1984 as director of welfare, rising to...

Sainsbury Centre in the North

The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, in collaboration with a consortium of NHS trusts in the Northern and Yorkshire region, has announced the appointment...

Scottish Health and Community Care Minister

Donald Dewar, First Minister for Scotland, has announced the appointment of Susan Deacon as Minister for Health and Community Care to serve in the...