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US-led partnership takes over NOC private patient ward
Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre (NOC) NHS Trust has signed an agreement with a US healthcare provider, working with a group of local surgeons, to take...
Pathology pilots to test increased independent provision
Independent sector providers could be invited to supply more pathology services for the NHS in a bid to improve the quality and efficiency of...
Healthcare Commission to go undercover in bid to tackle ‘rogue providers’
The Healthcare Commission plans to use covert surveillance in a bid to crack down on unregistered providers of cosmetic procedures.Parliament has granted the healthcare...
Back pain specialists to open second centre
Back pain specialists, the Real Health Institute has raised £250,000 from the Capital Fund – a £50m venture capital fund that invests in fast-growing...
Court of Appeal ruling scuppers UHE GP contract
The Court of Appeal has overturned a High Court ruling allowing United Health Europe (UHE) to provide GP services in Creswell. UHE had expected...
National GP procurement scheme in jeopardy as one of six pilots is scrapped
The government’s £3.8m national procurement programme for under-doctored areas has run into trouble after one of the six pilot schemes announced last summer was...
Mercury Health opens Hackney GP practice
Mercury Health has opened a new GP practice and walk-in centre in Stamford Hill, North London in partnership with City and Hackney primary care...
Boots offers to house GP clinics
Boots the chemist is in discussion with a number of primary care trusts (PCTs) to set up GP clinics in its high street stores.The...
Affinity plans to expand services at both its sites
Mental health services provider Affinity Healthcare has announced a major expansion programme. The company, which currently operates two hospitals with 180 beds, will expand...
BUPA and HCA reach agreement
BUPA Insurance and HCA have settled a long-running dispute which has left HCA’s hospitals off BUPA’s network for over a year.Although BUPA members have...
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