Surgicare reports increase in self-pay

Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998Surgicare, which runs day case units for surgical procedures, has reported a significant increase in the number of patients...

Call for closer links with private sector

Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998Ann Widdecombe, shadow secretary of state for health, has called for a fresh approach to the debate on funding...

Brain injury forum established

Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998A UK acquired brain injury forum is to be established in order to bring together a coalition of organisations...

Insurers rally to fend off regulation threats

Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998The private medical insurance industry would appear to have saved itself from statutory regulation through the publication of a...

Quality audit for BUPA network hospitals

Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998BUPA is to introduce systems to measure the quality of outcomes in the 170 hospitals which make up its...

Corporate dentistry takes leap forward

Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998Boots the Chemists announced this month that it has acquired one of only 27 dental bodies corporate (DBCs) which...

Cover for psychiatric conditions expanding

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) October 1998A consumer guide to insurance cover for psychiatric cover published by the Independent Healthcare Association (IHA) shows that...

Guardian / PPP restructuring

Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998Guardian Royal Exchange has completed the comprehensive review of its healthcare division, following the acquisition of PPP healthcare in...

Market review forecasts 20% share for NHS

Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998The Fitzhugh Directory of Independent Healthcare and Long Term Care, published this month, claims that the NHS is on...

£5m to pilot new primary care services

Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998Health authorities, working together with family doctors, nurses and community trusts, have been invited to put forward proposals to...