Exeter Friendly co-payment product

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) February 2004Exeter Friendly Society has launched a new co-payment medical insurance plan aimed at individuals.Shared Care enables customers to...

Medicash financial director

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) February 2004Liverpool-based health cash plan provider Medicash has announced the appointment of Sue Weir as its new financial director. Weir,...

Another ITC contract signed as Reid plans to outsource 15% of NHS surgery

Healthcare Market News (News) February 2004The Department of Health (DoH) has finalised another contract to run new independent treatment centres (ITCs), after announcing the...

Portland facing Caesarean probe

Healthcare Market News (News) February 2004The Portland Hospital, the London hospital owned by HCA Healthcare, is to face an official investigation, after a midwife...

STAR acquires Secondary Market Infrastructure Fund

Healthcare Market News (Public Private Partnerships) February 2004UK private equity provider STAR Capital Partners has acquired the Secondary Market Infrastructure Fund, a vehicle which...

New back-office PMI system

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) February 2004Sirius Financial Systems has launched a new integrated back-office application targeted at medical insurance intermediaries. Sirius, which also...

Goodhealth Worldwide sales director

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) February 2004Goodhealth Worldwide, the Primary Group-owned company which launched into the UK private medical insurance market in September 2003, has...

£20m obesity hospital set to open

Healthcare Market News (News) February 2004A new private hospital which aims to carry out surgery on up to 2,000 clinically obese patients a year...

Tighter IVF guidelines published

Healthcare Market News (News) February 2004The Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority (HFEA), the organisation which regulates IVF treatment in the UK, has published guidelines...

£400m Miller deal cleared by Audit Office

Healthcare Market News (Public Private Partnerships) February 2004The National Audit Office (NAO) has cleared a controversial deal to sell NHS Estates surplus property worth...