Infertility services

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) August 1998The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 10 July 1998 at column 674) when the government expects...

£100m development for London

Healthcare Market News (News) August 1998Health Secretary Frank Dobson has approved a £100m development at Guy's & St Thomas' Hospitals in London. The development...

BCWA boosts dental plan

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) August 1998BCWA Healthcare has frozen the cost of premiums on its Confident Dental Health Cover, but is increasing many...

£180m hospital for Edinburgh

Healthcare Market News (News) August 1998Contracts were signed this month for the £180m development of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, funded through the Private...

HSA Healthcare adds benefits

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) August 1998HSA Healthcare has announced improvements to the benefits available on its HSA SuperPlan. From 1 October 1998 the...

Primary Health Properties

Healthcare Market News (Company News) July 1998Primary Health Properties plc announced this month that its wholly owned subsidiary, Primary Health Investment Properties, has recently...

Sale and leaseback for Ashbourne

REIT Asset Management (RAM), a newly formed specialist investor in UK healthcare properties, is acquiring a total of 29 nursing homes with 1995 beds...

Arcadia in hands of receivers

The Arcadia Healthcare plc group of homes has gone into voluntary receivership. The group owned eight homes with 450 beds and had a total...

Ruling prompts call for review of law

The House of Lords has overturned a Court of Appeal ruling that hospitals and nursing homes should not be allowed to detain vulnerable patients...

Free eye tests

The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 19 June 1998 at column 338) to estimate the cost of providing free sight tests...