CIGNA appointment

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) March 1998Chris James, currently managing director of CIGNA Healthcare & Group Life (UK), is to head the Global Healthcare business...

A further 50,000 join NHS waiting lists

Healthcare Market News (News) March 1998The Department of Health has published provisional waiting list figures relating to 31 December 1997 which show the number...

Primary Health Properties interim results

Healthcare Market News (Company News) March 1998Primary Health Properties plc (PHP) reported interim figures this month for the six month period ending 31 December...

New directors for Community Hospitals and Aspen

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) March 1998Community Hospitals Group has this month announced the appointment of Loretta Tinckham as a non-executive director. She is currently...

Smart card proposed for health service

Healthcare Market News (News) March 1998GPT Card Technology is seeking to promote the capabilities of a new health smart card to the private healthcare...

Management buyout for Paracelsus

Healthcare Market News (Company News) March 1998In a management buyout, Aspen Healthcare Holdings Ltd - formerly Paracelsus UK has been acquired from troubled German...

Community Hospitals figures

Healthcare Market News (Company News) March 1998Community Hospitals Group (CHG) reported interim figures this month for the half year to 31 December 1997. Turnover...

Opposition to consultant partnership continues

Healthcare Market News (News) December 1997The British Medical Association (BMA) and the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association (HCSA) are continuing to advise their members...

Community bid for IBH

Healthcare Market News (Company News) December 1997Community Hospitals Group plc (CHG) announced earlier this month that it had purchased from BUPA 20.9% of Independent...

White paper spells out end for internal market

Healthcare Market News (News) December 1997The government has published its long awaited White Paper on the NHS, paving the way for the abolition of...