GPC negotiating team re-elected

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) August 2005Dr Hamish Meldrum has been re-elected chairman of the British Medical Association's (BMA's) General Practitioners Committee (GPC). Under new...

Medicentres turns profitable

Healthcare Market News (Company News) August 2005After numerous years of losses occasioned by building up its chain of walk-in GP centres, Medicentres (UK) Ltd,...

BCWA strengthens broker support

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) August 2005BCWA has added two new consultants to its team. Lisa Rowe will take responsibility for brokers in the South...

Slight recovery for Nestor but provider still not winning

Healthcare Market News (Company News) August 2005Healthcare staffing provider Nestor Healthcare Group plc has pulled itself back into the black following the huge losses...

BUPA launches flexible benefits package

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) August 2005BUPA Insurance has launched a modular private medical insurance (PMI) product for corporate customers. BUPA Select, which is...

Capio interims show growth

Healthcare Market News (Company News) August 2005Capio AB, the Swedish healthcare conglomerate with significant UK interests, has announced continuing organic growth in its interim...

AXA PPP launches casualty insurance product

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) August 2005Private casualty centre operator, Casualty Plus has launched a new medical insurance product in association with AXA PPP....

PRG captures ‘Just Us’

Healthcare Market News (Company News) August 2005In a niche takeover, the Public Recruitment Group (PRG) has acquired specialist paediatric staffing agency 'Just Us'. PRG...

DH trails forthcoming white paper with new primary care contracts

Healthcare Market News (News) August 2005Independent providers and foundation trusts are being invited to bid for a new wave of primary care contracts worth...

Independent sector treatment centres

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) August 2005Frank Dobson asked (4 July 2005: Column 226W) whether agency nurses, doctors or technicians who have worked in the...