Clinics slam ‘unsafe’ screening claims

Healthcare Market News (News) November 2003Private-sector clinics which screen for signs of heart disease or cancer have hit back at claims that they could...

Priory results

Healthcare Market News (Company News) November 2003Following on from last month's coverage of Priory's statutory accounts (HMN October 2003), the organisation's securitisation document provides...

Capio King Edward decision imminent

Healthcare Market News (News) November 2003A decision on a rescue package, proposed by a consortium of property and construction companies and led by Capio...

BMA Northern Ireland chairman

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) November 2003The BMA in Northern Ireland has announced that its council has elected a new chairman. Dr Brian Patterson, a...

Nestor Healthcare board change

Nestor Healthcare Group plc has announced that David Howell has resigned as a non-executive director. The company said the process to find a successor...

DoH-South Africa staffing deal

Healthcare Market News (News) November 2003The Department of Health (DoH) has signed a deal with the South African government which will see healthcare professionals...

140 redundancies at Benenden

Healthcare Market News (News) November 2003Managers at Benenden Hospital in Kent have confirmed that 140 staff are to be made redundant, following a cost-cutting...

Reed cautious again

Healthcare Market News (Company News) November 2003Reed Health Group, the staffing services provider, has issued its final results for the year to June 2003...

Priory £1m Glasgow addiction unit

Healthcare Market News (Mental Health) November 2003Priory Healthcare has opened a new £1m drug and alcohol addiction and rehabilitation unit at its hospital in...

Break for Groupama underwriting boss

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) November 2003Groupama underwriting and pricing director Maggie Lister is to leave the insurer at the end of November for a...