Acquisition interest boosts Nestor share value

Shares in troubled health and social care provider Nestor Healthcare Group plc spiked by more than 8% to 43p at the end of July...

Ministers launch end of life strategy

The Department of Health (DH) has launched a ten-year End of life care strategy to support a number of initiatives designed to hand people...

Priory alters Milton Keynes presence

The Priory Group is changing the way it provides specialist care services at its portfolio of hospitals in Milton Keynes under a programme which...

New co-directors at health policy unit

The University of Birmingham’s Health Services Management Centre (HSMC) has appointed Helen Parker and Professor Jon Glasby as co-directors. Mr Glasby, a qualified social...

New dementia drug a ‘breakthrough’

Trials of a new Alzheimer’s drug have been heralded as a significant breakthrough in the treatment of dementia at an international conference focused on...

Voluntary organisation representation

Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (10 July 2008: Column 1802W) pursuant to the answer of...

NHS top-ups

Anne Milton asked (16 June: column 76) whether there is a (a) legislative and (b) other basis for the principle that an individual cannot...

PiC opens medium secure hospital

Partnerships in Care (PiC) has opened a new 64-bed medium secure psychiatric hospital near Arnold in Nottinghamshire. The new Calverton Hill hospital will include...

BUPA advances into Indian insurance market

Bupa has spread its international wings still further after announcing plans to enter the Indian health insurance market. The group, which expanded into the Australian...

Better use of technology needed in PMI sector

PMI provider Groupama is calling for the wider adoption of technology within the health insurance sector to help brokers and intermediaries reduce costs, cut...