PPP launches private primary care service with NHS GPs

Healthcare Market News (News) November 1998PPP Healthcare has announced plans to expand into the primary care market, working in partnership with NHS GPs to...

BUPA Middle East contract win

Healthcare Market News (News) November 1998BUPA Middle East has won a major healthcare contract with the National Commercial Bank, following its launch in Saudi...

PHP moves to full listing

Healthcare Market News (Company News) November 1998Primary Health Properties (PHP), whose shares previously traded on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) successfully applied this month...

League tables reveal cost differences between NHS hospitals

Healthcare Market News (News) November 1998The government has this month published hospital league tables which, for the first time, compare the costs of operations...

British Heart Foundation launches website

Healthcare Market News (News) November 1998The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has launched its first website, containing information on heart research and help for patients...

Charter back on market

Healthcare Market News (Company News) November 1998Charter Hospitals Group, which is 100% owned by the major US psychiatric group Magellan Inc., has been put...

Patients’ views to be taken into account

Healthcare Market News (News) November 1998A package of measures to boost public involvement in the NHS will be a vital driver to improve standards...

Cancer care ‘depends on area’

Healthcare Market News (News) November 1998Over 80% of health authorities in the UK have not undertaken to fund the most effective kind of chemotherapy...

SMH under the microscope

Healthcare Market News (Company News) November 1998November, like October, September and many months before, does not seem to have been a very good time...

Community approach more effective than psychiatric hospital treatment for psychosis

A controlled study of two types of community mental health service has found that a community-orientated approach to treating patients with psychosis is more...