Ramsay managing director to retire

Ramsay Health Care has announced the retirement of managing director and CEO Pat Grier.Mr Grier intends to retire at the end of the current...

Capio Nightingale treads a new path

Capio Nightingale has said that it plans to focus on its private patient business following a £700,000 refurbishment of its hospital in Lisson Grove,...

Founders complete fourth Cygnet buyout

Specialist psychiatric care provider Cygnet Health Care has been bought out for a fourth time in the last eight years by its founders John...

New private hospital will be built in Kent

Cardio-Thoracic Consortium (CTC) Ltd, owner of the Kings Mill Medical Centre in West Malling, Kent, is the major backer in a £60-£80m project to...

Spire to expand Murrayfield with new £25m facility

Spire Healthcare has announced the development of a 15-bed diagnostic centre and hospital in Edinburgh.The group, which acquired Classic Hospitals in February (HMN March...

New face at Treasury

HM Treasury has announced the appointment of Helen Bailey as its new director of public services.Ms Bailey, who moves to the Treasury from Islington...

Focus: Managing a weighty problem – Childhood obesity

The true scale of the nation's childhood obesity problem has been exposed by the government's National Child Measurement Programme, one of the most comprehensive...

DH to spend more on talking therapies

Health Secretary Alan Johnson has revealed details of a major new spending programme to dramatically increase the number of people trained as psychological therapists...

Castlebeck opens autism facility

Specialist provider Castlebeck has opened a hospital for people with autism near Birmingham. Wast Hills House, together with its Lodge and Annexe, is situated in...

Palliative Care

Willie Rennie asked the Secretary of State for Health (14 Mar 2008: Column 675W) by what mechanisms his department maintains standards in care plans...