Restaurant boss expands physio venture

Healthcare Market News (Company News) July 2003Restauranteur Ronnie Truss is to open the second in a chain of state-of-the-art physiotherapy centres in the basement...

NHS Confederation chair

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) July 2003Peter Mount, chair of Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospitals trust, has been elected chair of the NHS...

Scottish NHS spin-out company

Healthcare Market News (News) July 2003Touch Emas, the first NHS spin-out to be launched through Scottish Health Innovations Ltd, has secured seed investment from...

Consumer watchdog slams NHS Direct

Healthcare Market News (News) July 2003A consumer watchdog has claimed that patients calling the NHS Direct telephone helpline are being put at risk by...

Medical Solutions buys London lab

Healthcare Market News (Company News) July 2003Cancer and pathology services group Medical Solutions is to acquire Farrer-Brown, the London-based histopathology laboratory with eight staff,...

Senior appointments at Reed

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) July 2003Chris Rolland has been named business development director at Reed Health Group. He previously worked as a senior branch...

Conflict over Bon Secours in Glasgow

Healthcare Market News (News) July 2003Plans to demolish a former private hospital in Glasgow and build almost 90 flats are facing mounting opposition from...

Primary Health buys three GP centres

Healthcare Market News (Company News) July 2003Primary Health Investment Properties Ltd, the wholly owned subsidiary of Primary Health Properties plc, has entered into three...

Clinicare MD steps down

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) July 2003Private medical insurance (PMI) provider Clinicare has announced that Derry Andrews, the company's managing director, has left the company...

DTI demands more transparency from private dentists

Healthcare Market News (Dentistry) July 2003The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has set out an action plan designed to make private dentistry charging...