£4.5m to improve Scottish NHS practices

Healthcare Market News (Dentistry) April 2004The Scottish Executive has announced an investment of £4.5m to support NHS dentistry. Dentists will receive £3m for improvements...

Online GP faces GMC probe

Healthcare Market News (News) April 2004A doctor who set up a pioneering 'internet GP clinic' could face a General Medical Council (GMC) inquiry over...

Colchester bidders shortlisted

Healthcare Market News (Public Private Partnerships) April 2004Three companies have been shortlisted from a total of 18 who expressed an interest in working on...

Capital projects

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) April 2004Peter Luff asked the Secretary of State for Health (5 March 2004: Column 1159W) (1) for what reasons he...

Doctors frozen out as treatment centre plans begin to bite

Healthcare Market News (News) April 2004British doctors have accused the government of restricting their freedom to earn a fair living, following news that a...

NHS trust chairman quits over agency nurse comment

Healthcare Market News (News) April 2004A NHS trust chairman has been forced to resign after he told a grieving relative that agency nurses 'killed...

Audit Office to probe Norfolk deal

Healthcare Market News (Public Private Partnerships) April 2004The National Audit Office is to investigate concerns about the controversial refinancing deal for Norfolk's flagship hospital....

Argyll & Clyde £13.5m contract

Healthcare Market News (Public Private Partnerships) April 2004NHS Argyll & Clyde has awarded a £13.5m PFI contract to build a new health and social...

DH: no ‘secret deals’ with private sector

Healthcare Market News (News) April 2004The Department of Health (DH) has denied that it is about to announce the results of 'secret negotiations' it...

BUPA Wellness wins Lehman deal

Healthcare Market News (News) April 2004BUPA Wellness has won a contract to run a Canary Wharf health centre for more than 3,000 employees of...