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...

Millions with dementia in US

Analysis published by America’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) has claimed that one in seven Americans aged over 71 years has some form of...

Delayed discharge figure foul up

Care minister Ivan Lewis was forced to deliver an embarrassing statement to parliament last month after announcing incorrect figures for delayed discharges which suggested...

Scots ‘super nurses’ to prevent hospitalisation

Edinburgh city council and NHS Lothian have launched a community-based nursing service for people with long term conditions as the first in a series...

Government says ‘work is good for you’ in benefit cut

Government plans to change the ways in which it allocates incapacity benefits could force more people on to unemployment benefits, rather than give them...

Hallmark management team strengthened

Hallmark Healthcare has added two new posts to its management team with the appointment of Phil Winfield as marketing manager and Michael Broughton as...

Care Homes: Standards

Nigel Waterson asked the Secretary of State for Health (26 Nov 2007: Column 235W) what his most recent estimate is of the cost of...