Primary Health Properties

Healthcare Market News (Company News) February 1999Primary Health Properties plc announced this month that its wholly owned subsidiary Primary Health Investment Properties Limited has...

WPA launches PMI for self-employed

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) February 1999WPA Health Insurance has launched a new PMI product aimed specifically at the self-employed.The scheme is called Freelance...

Healthcall wins police contract

Healthcare Market News (News) February 1999West Midlands Police has signed a three-year contract with Healthcall plc for the provision of police surgeon services. It...

BUPA price rise will impact on PMI premiums

Healthcare Market News (News) February 1999As BUPA's insurance arm (BUPA Partnership) completes the negotiation of discounted prices with hospital providers included on its preferred...

Action promised to reform Ashworth Hospital

Ashworth Hospital has been given four months to develop an action plan to implement urgent and necessary changes to the current regime, following publication...

Clinicare claims success in 1998

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) February 1999Clinicare is claiming year on year membership growth of 46% for 1998 in the group PMI market. This...

£84m to fund specialist children services

Healthcare Market News (News) February 1999Services for children with attention deficit disorder, phobias, depression and other mental health problems are to get a government...

Quality framework document agreed

Healthcare Market News (News) February 1999Quality standards for the independent acute healthcare sector have been drawn up and ratified by the Private Practice Committee...

Legal & General polls women

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) February 1999Legal & General has launched a nationwide survey to discover the extent to which women use the internet....

Pharmaceutical industry expresses concerns over government reforms

Healthcare Market News (News) February 1999The Association of British Pharmaceutical Industries (ABPI) has published a report, Hard Rations, highlighting the problems currently caused by...