Quality audit for BUPA network hospitals

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Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998BUPA is to introduce systems to measure the quality of outcomes in the 170 hospitals which make up its...

£5m to pilot new primary care services

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Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998Health authorities, working together with family doctors, nurses and community trusts, have been invited to put forward proposals to...

Corporate dentistry takes leap forward

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Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998Boots the Chemists announced this month that it has acquired one of only 27 dental bodies corporate (DBCs) which...

NHS investment in information systems

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Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998The government has announced a £1 billion investment programme into information technology throughout the NHS.Secretary of State for Health...

Guardian / PPP restructuring

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Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998Guardian Royal Exchange has completed the comprehensive review of its healthcare division, following the acquisition of PPP healthcare in...

Market review forecasts 20% share for NHS

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Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998The Fitzhugh Directory of Independent Healthcare and Long Term Care, published this month, claims that the NHS is on...

Heart Hospital opens its doors

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Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998The first new private hospital in London for 12 years this month opened its doors. The Heart Hospital, construction...

£320m promised to keep NHS waiting lists falling

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Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998The Department of Health has published figures showing the number of people on waiting lists at end August 1998....

£50m plan to tackle nurse shortages

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Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998Alan Milburn, health minister, this month revealed details of a £50m recruitment plan to tackle immediately nursing shortages in...

Dementia

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The Secretary of State for Scotland was asked (Hansard 14 July 1998 at column 145) what estimate has been made of the number of...
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