BUPA sells off hospitals in a bid to lower prices

Healthcare Market News (News) July 2004BUPA Hospitals is to sell ten off ten of its hospitals and introduce greater standardisation across its business and...

Orthopaedics

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) July 2004Paul Burstow asked the Secretary of State for Health (7 June 2004: Column 43W) how many overseas orthopaedic surgeons...

NHS waiting lists exceed public expectations

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) July 2004Members of the public could be underestimating the length of time they would have to wait for NHS...

PCTs failing to implement NICE fertility guidance

Healthcare Market News (News) July 2004A survey of Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) has revealed that widespread confusion still exists over the commissioning of fertility...

Conservatives unveil new health policy

Healthcare Market News (News) July 2004A future Conservative government would abandon centrally imposed hospital targets, including those on maximum waiting times, and would subsidise...

PFI

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) July 2004Sir Paul Beresford asked the Secretary of State for Health (8 June 2004: Column 365W) what plans he has...

New health and wellbeing service

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) July 2004Standard Life Healthcare is launching a health and wellbeing service to its individual and corporate customers from the...

Private sector NHS work set to increase five to ten-fold under new Plan

Healthcare Market News (News) July 2004Independent sector hospitals could massively increase their NHS business under radical measures set out by Health Secretary John Reid...

CSR maintains NHS spending

Healthcare Market News (News) July 2004Chancellor Gordon Brown has confirmed the government's health spending plans for the next three years in his Comprehensive Spending...

BMA and ABI agree new fees structure

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) July 2004The British Medical Association (BMA) and the Association of British Insurers (ABI) have reached agreement on the fee...