Teenage pregnancy termination stats

Healthcare Market News (News) May 2004The proportion of conceptions terminated by abortion among under 20-year-olds increased slightly from 36% in 1990 to 39% in...

NHS Highlands to privatise chiropody?

Healthcare Market News (News) May 2004A Conservative MSP has warned that NHS Highlands could become the first region in Scotland to privatise chiropody, after...

Impreglio wins £60m Oxford deal

Healthcare Market News (Public Private Partnerships) May 2004The £60m deal for the rebuild of Churchill Hospital in Headington, Oxford has been awarded to Impregilo.Oxford...

£100m hospital for Gwent

Healthcare Market News (Public Private Partnerships) May 2004A PFI-funded £100m, 266-bed hospital is to be built in Caerphilly in Wales.The project, still several years...

Macmillan-accredited nurses at BMI

Healthcare Market News (News) May 2004Two nurses accredited by cancer charity Macmillan Cancer Relief have begun work caring for cancer sufferers at BMI Healthcare's...

Midlands police using private healthcare

Healthcare Market News (News) May 2004Police authorities in Staffordshire are planning to double the amount of money they spend on private healthcare as part...

Healthcare holds up well at CSG

Healthcare Market News (Company News) May 2004Corporate Services Group plc (CSG), the former Blue Arrow recruitment business, has announced another set of losses, this...

BUPA non-executive director

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) May 2004Robert Walther has been appointed as a non-executive director by BUPA. Walther is currently chairman of Fleming Claverhouse, Fidelity...

Home closure paves the way for 3i deal

A former care home is to be converted into a personality disorder unit, backed by venture capitalist funding. Healthcare entrepreneurs Jennifer Priestley and Tom...

New intermediate service for Bristol

Bristol City Council and Bristol South & West Primary Care Trust have opened an intermediate care service to help prevent people being re-admitted to...