Healthcare Markets

Healthcare Market News (News) April 2000 Independent research published to coincide with the second anniversary of NHS Direct, reports that the 24-hour...

Changes have been made to the Aviva team. David McMillan has been appointed chief executive of Aviva Europe. Nick Amin joins as group transformation director while Jason Windsor joins the group executive as chief strategy and development officer. As a result of these changes Trevor Matthews will not stand for re-election at the 2013 Annual General Meeting and will step down from the Board on the day prior to this year's AGM.

Healthcare Market News (News) February 2003 The NHS is on the point of implosion according to one of the UK's leading cancer...

HCA has held what it hopes to be the first in a series of events designed to encourage greater collaboration and information sharing among healthcare providers in both the independent sector and the NHS.

Healthcare Market News (News) June 2004 An overwhelming number of nurses are against the Conservative's proposals to introduce 'patient passports'. Over 95%...

Turnover has fallen at Lighthouse Healthcare, the holding company for a number of learning disability and mental health hospitals and care homes, due to falling occupancy levels across the group’s eight services. Though the directors do not highlight it, the decline presumably reflects the commissioning climate created by the government driven programme of review of learning disability placements in hospitals and assessment centres, following the Castlebeck scandal.

Healthcare Market News (Dentistry) February 2001 BUPA has announced the sale of part of its BUPA DentalCover business to Denplan, the market...

Private dentistry provider Oasis acquired Smiles Dental last month for an undisclosed sum.

Leading mental health provider, Priory Healthcare has opened a new care home, The Cloisters, in Monks Lane, Newbury. The company has worked in partnership with West Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to provide the new 24-bedded care facility. £3.5 million has been invested in the local area with up to 40 new jobs created in roles including care staff, catering, housekeeping, estates and gardening as well as specialist clinical roles.

Priory Group has said it remains in a strong position to pursue growth after reporting a 10% jump in revenue to £571m for the...