Veteran London Clinic matron retires

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) December 2003The London Clinic has announced that Betty Boden is to retire from her position as matron, after 33 years...

Construction begins in East London

Healthcare Market News (News) December 2003Health Minister John Hutton laid the foundation stone for the new £4.9m Church Road Primary Care Centre in East...

Cash injection for Scottish dentistry

Healthcare Market News (Dentistry) December 2003The Scottish Executive has announced significant increases in funding to recruit more dentists and to encourage existing ones to...

NHS on the mend, says Nuffield Trust

Healthcare Market News (News) December 2003Increased investment and the introduction of quality reforms means that the NHS will continue to improve, an independent think...

£80m Glasgow day treatment centre

Healthcare Market News (News) December 2003Work has begun on an £80m PFI-funded day treatment centre which will replace Glasgow's Victoria Infirmary. Construction has begun...

PatientChoice offers Medical Care Direct

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) December 2003PatientChoice, the new private medical insurance provider underwritten by Foresters Friendly Society Ltd, has signed an agreement with...

Huntercombe to open unit in Roehampton

Healthcare Market News (Mental Health) December 2003Huntercombe Hospitals, the psychiatric rehabilitation provider owned by Four Seasons Health Care, is to open a new 39-bed...

Huntercombe consultant psychiatrist

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) December 2003Pall Jonsson has been appointed consultant psychiatrist at the Huntercombe Maidenhead Hospital. Jonsson, who is Icelandic and has been...

Second LIFT scheme

Healthcare Market News (News) December 2003Construction is almost underway on the second LIFT scheme, a £19.3m initiative to build doctors surgeries and accommodation for...

£28m Wolverhampton scheme

Healthcare Market News (News) December 2003Work is to begin in January on a network of seven healthcare complexes in Wolverhampton. The £28m LIFT project...