PFI roundup

Healthcare Market News (News) November 2003* The PFI contract to build the new Savernake Hospital for Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Strategic Health Authority has been...

GHG hits back after ISTC snub

Healthcare Market News (News) November 2003After failing to win a contract to run new independent sector treatment centres (ISTCs), General Healthcare Group (GHG) has...

PHP takes over Valerie Levene

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) November 2003Private medical insurance (PMI) provider Private Health Partnership Ltd, part of Skipton Building Society group, has taken over...

Compensation for overseas treatment

Healthcare Market News (News) November 2003The government has been granted the right to appeal a High Court ruling that NHS patients facing 'undue delay'...

Nursing Homes

Bob Spink asked the Secretary of State for Health (28 Oct 2003 : Column 215W) if he will make a statement on the powers...

Shrewsbury NHS hospital PPU plans

Healthcare Market News (News) November 2003Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS trust is planning to build a new 14-bed private patient unit (PPU), it emerged...

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%...

Combined insurance-investment product

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) November 2003Specialist private medical insurance (PMI) broker the Private Health Partnership (PHP) is launching HealthSaver, a new product which...

GP league tables looking more likely

Healthcare Market News (News) November 2003The possibility of GP league tables being published took a step closer to reality last month when Health Minister...

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...