IPPR’s Taylor moves to Number 10

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) October 2003Matthew Taylor, director of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), is to be seconded to Downing Street's Policy...

£15m HCA clinical trials cancer unit

Healthcare Market News (News) October 2003The London Cancer Group, the cancer care provider owned by HCA International Ltd, is to double its radiotherapy capacity...

King’s Fund wants rid of health ministers

Healthcare Market News (News) October 2003The King's Fund is planning to call for the total removal of government from decisions over where money is...

Ex-Florence Nightingale boss Hodgkinson launches Alpha Hospitals

Healthcare Market News (Mental Health) October 2003Alpha Hospitals, led by former Florence Nightingale chief executive officer Patricia Hodgkinson, has announced that it is opening...

Windsor Recruitment strategy director

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) October 2003Healthcare recruitment agency Windsor Recruitment has appointed Derek Kitchen as strategy director. Kitchen joins Windsor from Northern Birmingham Mental...

£250,000 South Wales cosmetic surgery

Healthcare Market News (News) October 2003Four local doctors and a business manager have invested almost £250,000 in setting up a new non-invasive cosmetic surgery...

Regulation of acupuncture proposed

Healthcare Market News (News) October 2003The Department of Health has commissioned a report proposing the statutory regulation of the UK's 12,000 acupuncturists. The report...

Ashbourne north Wales secure unit

Healthcare Market News (Mental Health) October 2003Care home provider Ashbourne Health Care Ltd is hoping to defeat local objections to building a new secure...

NICE director quits to join Baxter

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) October 2003The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has announced that current corporate affairs director Anne-Toni Rodgers is is to...

Public confused over patient choice

Healthcare Market News (News) October 2003Nearly half the British public does not understand patient choice in the NHS, research published last month has revealed.Polls...