New private hospital for Scarborough

Healthcare Market News (News) December 2003Plans for a new private hospital to be built in Scarborough have been provisionally approved by local authorities, after...

GP Plus opens new clinics in Scotland

Healthcare Market News (News) December 2003GP Plus, the private GP clinic based in Edinburgh, has opened a second clinic, this time in Glasgow. The...

£28m Wolverhampton scheme

Healthcare Market News (News) December 2003Work is to begin in January on a network of seven healthcare complexes in Wolverhampton. The £28m LIFT project...

NHS chief executive report

Healthcare Market News (News) December 2003The maximum wait for an operation in the NHS will fall to six months by the end of 2005,...

North Wales renal centre

Healthcare Market News (News) December 2003Fresenius Medical Care Renal Services Ltd has won the contract to build a £3.9m unit for kidney and diabetic...

EU gender legislation

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) December 2003The European Commission has unveiled proposals which could change the way in which medical insurance costs are calculated...

Capio King Edward plans get green light

Healthcare Market News (News) December 2003Plans by a consortium of property and construction companies led by Capio Healthcare UK to save the King Edward...

Private Patients

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) December 2003Frank Dobson asked the Secretary of State for Health (6 November 2003: Column 789W) how much private patient bad...

More funding for out-of-hours care

Healthcare Market News (News) December 2003The Department of Health (DoH) has pledged an extra £28m to remote and disadvantaged communities to make sure out-of-hours...

Foundation trusts become law

Healthcare Market News (News) December 2003Foundation hospitals became law last month, as the Health and Social Care (Community Standards) Act 2003 narrowly scraped through...