Private operations cost NHS ‘40% more’

Healthcare Market News (News) November 2003Operations carried out on NHS patients by the private sector are costing the health service as much as 40%...

Health for Industry acquires Integra

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) November 2003Health for Industry, the healthcare benefits consultancy, has announced the acquisition of Integra Healthcare Limited. Integra, with an...

DoH turns to US system for advice

Healthcare Market News (News) November 2003Trusts in eight areas of England have adopted practices developed by Kaiser Permanente, the health maintenance organisation based in...

Welsh guidance on agency nurses

Healthcare Market News (News) November 2003The Welsh Assembly has issued new guidance on agency nurses in order to improve the safety and privacy of...

Netcare secures another NHS contract

Healthcare Market News (News) November 2003Network Healthcare Holdings Limited (Netcare) has won a contract to perform 1,000 orthopaedic procedures for Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust...

Foundation trusts

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) November 2003Chris Grayling asked the Secretary of State for Health (6 October 2003: Column 1296W) if he will make a...

Benenden offers cover for teachers

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) November 2003The Benenden Healthcare Society, the mutual not-for-profit Friendly Society which provides low-cost private medical insurance to public sector...

MRI Scanners

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) November 2003Paul Burstow asked the Secretary of State for Health (6 October 2003: Column 1323W) how many magnetic resonance imaging...

Success for NHS Professionals

Healthcare Market News (News) November 2003A NHS trust in Surrey has saved £3m on its wage bill in little more than a year by...

Weary consultants accept new contract

Healthcare Market News (News) November 2003Consultants in England have voted in favour of accepting a new NHS contract, ending years of bitter negotiations and...