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Nottingham care beds for swine flu support
Proposals put forward by Nottingham City primary care trust (PCT) have suggested that empty beds in council-owned care homes could be used to treat...
Brown makes one-week cancer target election pledge
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has pledged to cut the waiting times for cancer diagnostic tests to just one week if the Labour party serves...
Affinity award sets independent provider precedent
Affinity Healthcare has become the first independent provider to win the National Association of Psychiatric Intensive Care and Low Secure Unit’s (NAPICU) team of...
More e-trading needed say brokers
A quick survey to gauge opinion in the medical insurance sector has uncovered the view among the majority of brokers that online trading is...
Third joint cancer venture for HCA
HCA International has joined forces with Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust to develop Essex’s first comprehensive private patient cancer treatment centre,...
East meets west as Bupa International forges Russian alliance
Bupa International has expanded its expatriate health insurance empire into the former Soviet states by forming a partnership with open joint stock insurance company...
Milburn condemns NHS preferred provider plans
Former health secretary Alan Milburn strongly criticised government plans to make the NHS preferred provider in commissioning all public healthcare services during a fringe...
Wide disparities found in GP funding
There is a massive variation in how much primary care trusts pay GP practices, with some trusts paying up to £50 more per head,...
IHAS/ALPHA assert need for state regulation of non-surgical cosmetic laser treatments
Non-surgical cosmetic laser treatment providers should be subject to local authority regulation, according to recommendations made by the Independent Healthcare Advisory Services (IHAS) and...
Sector needs to change to survive say major providers
The heads of two independent hospital operators in the UK warned delegates at last month’s Laing & Buisson’s Independent Healthcare Convention that the sector...
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