Match makes most of staffing business

Healthcare Market News (Company News) June 2003Match Healthcare Ltd, the former Sinclair Montrose business, has produced a sparkling set of results for the year...

Appointments at Nestor’s Primecare

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) June 2003Nestor Healthcare Group's Healthcare Services Division has made two appointments at its Primecare units.Stephen Spall, formerly clinic development manager...

GPs in driving seat as government makes contract concessions

Healthcare Market News (News) June 2003The UK's 43,000 GPs look likely to accept new government contract proposals, after negotiators won a number of last-minute...

Axa PPP turns to individual PMI underwriting

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) June 2003More than two years after BUPA unveiled the UK's first individually tailored private medical insurance (PMI) scheme, Axa...

Healthcall Optical clinical managers

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) June 2003Healthcall Optical Services, part of Nestor Healthcare, has announced the appointment of two optometrists as clinical managers. Dawn Roberts...

NHS internal market still immature

Healthcare Market News (News) June 2003The internal market within the NHS that the Conservative government introduced in 1991 continues to exist. However, while current...

Sales of protection policies make good progress in 2002

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) June 2003Swiss Re Life & Health's annual benchmark analysis of new life and health insurance sales to UK consumers...

Euro role for BUPA’s Sanitas boss

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) June 2003Julian Ruiz Ferran, medical director of BUPA's Spanish business Sanitas, has been appointed deputy chairman of the health committee...

NHS turns to BUPA cervical screening technique

Healthcare Market News (News) June 2003A cervical cancer screening test used at the BUPA hospital in Bristol could soon be adopted nationwide by the...

BUPA first to offer pain relief cancer drug

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) June 2003BUPA is to become the first insurer to make Zometa, a new pain relief drug for advanced cancer,...