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Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) June 2002 Leeds Hospital Fund (LHF) has reviewed its LHF Healthplan. Weekly contributions to the plan, which...

Healthcare Market News (News) October 2003 The King's Fund is planning to call for the total removal of government from decisions over...

Healthcare Market News (Company News) March 2004 Speculation that Standard Life could be planning to sell off its healthcare arm is growing...

Care UK has been re-awarded three Wave 1 ISTC contracts in Portsmouth, Havant and Sussex.

Pontefract Hospital admitted that it considered drafting in Army doctors last November in order to fully re-open its accident and emergency department which is currently closed at night due to a shortage of mid-level doctors.

Perception of the private healthcare sector arguably hasn’t been at lower ebb. What with the PiP scandal tarring all private clinics with the same brush and the Health & Social Care Bill – or the furore around it – raising the spectre of privatisation and by association and misinformed suspicion of private hospitals, the private care message is getting tainted. The Private Hospitals Alliance, representing the key players, is looking for a new chief executive as Matt James resigns to concentrate on the Hellenic project. The industry needs to decide whether it is going to retreat from irate anti-private care protesters or get out there and defend and promote itself.

Partnerships in Care (PiC) has appointed Simon Lane to the Board as chief financial officer (CFO). Mr Lane’s appointment is the result of a search process initiated by the Board following the decision by Peter Thomas to step down from his role as CFO to pursue new opportunities.

Stephen Cook, Bupa Home Healthcare’s director of pharmacy, has called for the benefits of out-of-hospital care to be available fo more and more patients. Not surprisingly. Mr Cook said that there is increasing acceptance of the benefits for patients associated with providing healthcare beyond the traditional hospital setting, which means high-quality care can provided more conveniently for patients, while also creating significant cost savings for the hard-pressed NHS. He called on the healthcare sector to work together to assist NHS managers and clinicians in overcoming barriers to the introduction of out-of-hospital care so that they can make it a reality in their own organisations.

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) April 1998 Chris Barton has been appointed customer services manager at Clinicare. He has been employed in the...

Bupa has acquired a further stake in Indian insurance firm Max Bupa from its joint venture partner Max India for £21.9m. The deal means Bupa...