Healthcare Markets

Virgin Care announced last month that it is to abandon is joint venture management model of working with GPs through 50/50 partnerships (GP Cos) in favour of providing services directly. Virgin Care said it believes that the move to a single governance structure for the vast majority of its services will ensure more consistency of governance and leadership, and efficient use of management resource.

Don Grocott, director of the Private Patients’ Forum suggests hospitals and insurers call a truce and put patients at the centre of all they do

Healthcare Market News (News) December 1997 The annual statistical analysis of the register of the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing Midwifery...

Healthcare Market News (News) December 1998 Secretary of State for Health Frank Dobson has welcomed publication of the former chief medical officer...

Healthcare Market News (News) December 1999 The BUPA Hospital Norwich is working in partnership with the NHS to provide training for radiographers,...

Healthcare Market News (News) November 2001 The reprovisioning of NHS pathology will offer exciting opportunities for private and public sector pathology laboratories...

Healthcare Market News (News) April 2002 Three in five Britons would be prepared to travel anywhere in the UK for an essential...

Healthcare Market News (News) November 2003 Network Healthcare Holdings Limited (Netcare) has won a contract to perform 1,000 orthopaedic procedures for Portsmouth...

Healthcare Market News (News) May 2004 Plans are afoot to open the first private accident and emergency department in Wales at a...

Healthcare Market News (Company News) July 1999 As part of its stated strategy of concentrating on the UK healthcare market, Nestor Healthcare...