Choice initiative to be extended

Healthcare Market News (News) February 2003Patients waiting more than six months for an operation will have the option of choosing to be treated at...

Specialist register – overseas applicants

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) February 2003Dr Liam Fox asked the Secretary of State for Health (19 Dec 2002: Column 1061W) what level of scrutiny...

Health Protection Agency chief executive

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) February 2003Dr Pat Troop has been appointed as the first chief executive of the national Health Protection Agency, which comes...

Overseas nurse advice line

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) February 2003Tim Loughton asked the Secretary of State for Health (19 Dec 2002: Column 1057W) how much the Department of...

Hospital groups make NHS franchise register

Healthcare Market News (News) February 2003BMI Healthcare, BUPA and Capio Healthcare have all been listed on the first NHS franchise register. The register lists...

Primary Health Properties plc

Healthcare Market News (Company News) February 2003Primary Health Properties (PHP) plc, which leases properties to GPs, NHS trusts and health authorities, has released its...

BMA committee chairman elected

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) February 2003Dr Paul Miller has been elected chairman of the BMA's consultants' committee. Miller, a consultant psychiatrist from Sunderland, succeeds...

NHS funding – PMI

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) February 2003Dave Watts asked the Secretary of State for Health (19 Dec 2002: Column 1061W) whether the proposed new funding...

Minimum standards for nurses agencies issued

Healthcare Market News (News) February 2003The Department of Health (DoH) has published minimum standards for nurses agencies in England. According to the DoH, the...

ScotNursing investment

Healthcare Market News (Company News) February 2003Aberdeen Murray Johnstone Private Equity (AMJPE) has invested £1.2m in ScotNursing Ltd, a home care, nursing agency and...