FIPO launches new patient charter More than twenty professional medical organisations have...

Launched last month at a meeting attended by health minister, Lord Darzi of Denham, the FIPO patient charter reaffirms doctors’ commitment to high-quality patient...

Medicentres acquisition boosts revenues for Casualty Plus

The acquisition of Medicentres has helped drive a more than five-fold increase in turnover for private primary and urgent care operator Casualty Plus.In its...

Flat year at AXA PPP Healthcare Occupational

AXA PPP Healthcare Occupational Health Services Limited, the occupational health and consultancy services arm of AXA PPP Healthcare Group plc, reported lack-lustre numbers for...

More setbacks for Nestor as profit forecasts are revised

Listed health and social care business Nestor Healthcare Group plc has announced that operating profits for the remainder of this year and 2008 could...

DH announces first PCTs to get new GP practices

The Department of Health (DH) has unveiled plans to establish new GP practices in 38 primary care trusts (PCTs) identified as having the poorest...

Charity urges PMI providers to review cancer policies

Beating Bowel Cancer is calling on all PMI holders to review their cancer cover after a survey revealed that over two thirds of PMI...

Care UK results help ease the pain of diagnostic contract loss

Listed health and social care provider Care UK has reported yet another set of outstanding year-end results, with turnover up 38% on last year,...

GMC launches new registration framework

The General Medical Council (GMC) has introduced a new registration framework for doctors in the UK.The cornerstone of the new framework is the abolition...

ISTC programme Norman Lamb asked (28 November 2007: Column 563W) how many independent...

Ben Bradshaw: There are 23 fixed site wave one ISTCs in operation and six walk-in centres with a commuter focus. There is also a mobile...

Alpha returns to losses as investment continues

Low secure and adolescent mental health services provider Alpha Hospitals has moved back into loss a year after posting its first profit.The company, which...