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Healthcare Market News (News) June 2005 The Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford has announced that a mobile operating theatre installed on its site...

In last month’s CCMN Sector Opinion’s feature, we asked care professionals to comment on the position of the Care Quality Commission. This month - in the first of a two part contribution - we’re please to present an exclusive response from CQC chief executive Cynthia Bower.

Access to NHS dentistry has improved but more people believe the service has deteriorated in the past four years and that private dentistry offers better quality.

St Helens council has pulled in social landlord and care provider Housing 21 to take over a sizable homecare contract after its relationship with former provider Care UK fell apart in June, some four months before the contract was set to end.

The training and education of healthcare workers in the UK is currently a priority for the Department of Health (DH). It is in the process of developing Local Education and Training Boards (LETBs) which have been designed to commission education and training across all regions.

Priory Group has made a raft of new appointments this month at a range of levels across the business. It has opened the Bohill Care Home, in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, which is set to create 60 jobs in the area. And, it has opened Carlingford Lodge, in Warrenpoint – also Northern Ireland – in a move that will generate another 60 jobs for local people.

Mental health care providers have questioned the newly drafted standards for low secure mental health facilities for people detained under the Mental Health Act, which have been re-drawn as part of the NHS Standard Contract.

A 24-bed facility for people suffering from eating disorders in Rainhill, Merseyside, has been approved by St Helens borough council. Mental health provider Raphael Healthcare says it will divide the building into three separate wards to facilitate the care of children and young adults aged ten to 18 and adults between 18 to 24 years. The operator will now work with its development team to produce a realistic timeline for the construction programme and, once complete, it will create 59 jobs in the area.

Telecare and telehealth provider, Tunstall Healthcare Group announced last month that is has acquired STT Condigi which specialises in providing technology and services to the elder care sector in the Nordic region.

Care Fertility Group, the provider of fertility healthcare services believed to be being sold by GHG, reported what its directors called a satisfactory level of business and year end financial position’, for the year ended 31 August 2011.