Cash boost and modernisation for NHS

Healthcare Market News (News) April 2000Additional funds for the NHS were announced in the Budget last month, swiftly followed by demands for modernisation from...

Hospital ownership profile shake-out

Healthcare Market News (News) April 2000The independent acute sector hospital ownership profile shake-out has continued this month with stories which highlight sector consolidation, old...

Cygnet Healthcare results

Healthcare Market News (Company News) April 2000Cygnet Healthcare has reported a marked improvement in results for the year to 31 October 1999. Revenues increased...

Progress on regulation

Healthcare Market News (News) April 2000The Department of Health has published a discussion paper, outlining its views on the development of a system of...

Review of domiciliary oxygen service

Healthcare Market News (News) April 2000Health Minister Lord Philip Hunt has announced a review of the Domiciliary Oxygen Service in England. The review follows...

Corporate Services rights issue

Healthcare Market News (Company News) April 2000Former chief executive of PPP Healthcare Peter Owen, appointed in December 1999 to head the staffing company Corporate...

Blair statement signals shift in policy on independent sector

Healthcare Market News (News) March 2000The Prime Minister Tony Blair this month endorsed the use of private hospitals by health authorities and NHS trusts,...

PPP/Columbia results

Healthcare Market News (Company News) March 2000Latest filed accounts for the year to December 1998 for PPP/Columbia Healthcare, operators of four Central London Hospitals...

PFI contract signed

A new contract worth approximately £47m has been signed to build and operate new facilities for mental health services in Leeds under the government's...

Flexibility highly rated by staff

Healthcare Market News (News) March 2000A survey of three NHS trusts undertaken by Pay & Workforce Research (PWR) has found that the most popular...