Overseas ISTC providers report progress

Healthcare Market News (Company News) June 2004Three overseas healthcare providers selected for the first round of ISTC provision have recently reported earnings advancement in...

Downing Street advisor joins new European arm of US health company

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) June 2004Simon Stevens has quit his post as Tony Blair's health policy advisor to join a new European venture set...

Independent hospitals deemed ‘safe’

Healthcare Market News (News) June 2004Clinical performance in private hospitals across the UK compares favourably to other healthcare systems, according to a report published...

London Clinic consolidates

Healthcare Market News (Company News) June 2004The London Clinic, the choice of many private fee payers in need of hospital care in London, has...

New MD to step up overseas recruitment

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) June 2004Specialist recruitment consultancy Recruitment Solutions Group has appointed Dianne Strauss as managing director of its healthcare division, Medics Incorporated....

Capio signs multi-million pound ISTC contract

Healthcare Market News (News) June 2004The Department of Health has finally signed a major Independent Sector Treatment Centre (ISTC) contract with an established UK...

Cygnet increases profits

Healthcare Market News (Company News) June 2004Cygnet Health Care Ltd, the specialist private psychiatric hospital operator, run and now wholly owned by John Hughes...

DH announces new adviser

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) June 2004Dr Ian Barnes has been appointed the government's first national pathology adviser. Dr Barnes, who has been head of...

Overseas surgeon investigated over inferior hip replacement ops

Healthcare Market News (News) June 2004An orthopaedic surgeon from Network Healthcare Holdings Limited (Netcare) has been investigated following concerns over the quality of five...

Workplace absence rises for first time since 1998

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) June 2004Workplace absence has increased for the first time in five years from 166m days in 2002 to 176m...