Craegmoor announces senior director

Craegmoor Healthcare has appointed Angela Geer as the group’s new business development and marketing manager. According to Craegmoor the move, which comes amid continued...

RBS appoints new healthcare head

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has appointed Jeremy Huband as the new director of healthcare in a move which sees the bank shake...

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BMA leader calls on English ministers to abandon healthcare market

The leader of the British Medical Association (BMA) has called on ministers in Whitehall to follow Scotland’s lead and get rid of the market...

Earnings boost for PiC

Specialist mental health care service provider Partnerships in Care (PiC) has announced revenues of £152.9m for the year ended 31 December 2007 .In what...

Local GPs win first prize for polyclinic contract:

As those opposed to Lord Darzi’s polyclinic-vision for primary care prepare to mourn the death of GP continuity of care, whilst simultaneously bemoaning the...

No mention of polyclinics in new primary care strategy

Better integrated primary and community care services will not necessarily involve the creation of large-scale ‘super-surgeries’ or polyclinics, the government indicated last month.Setting out...

‘Highest Quality Care For All’ – Lord Darzi’s report

Health minister Lord Darzi today unveiled ambitious plans to raise the quality of healthcare for patients across the NHS, with the publication of ‘High...

New PICU opens at Raphael’s Farndon unit

Raphael Healthcare has extended its flagship facility in Newark with an eight-bed psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU).The company made the decision to add the...

Private funding will not solve rising healthcare costs

Public funding remains the most efficient and equitable way of paying for the NHS and meeting future cost, but private spending needs to be...